Hatchling Temp

[jezzie]

So our house is quite cool... 16 C or 60 F which ever. Just wondering what everyone would recommend as a set up for the hatchlings aka: tank or bin? Which size for either. How many per container? Lights and how hot they should be.

I read misting 3 times a day and a FF culture are necessary as well.

Any other suggestions or advice is always welcomed. This clutch is 40 and one hatched today, the next was a month behind of 40 and we have another clutch laid in Oct of 63 lol.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[fluxlizard]

Wow- just figuring this out now?
Good luck!

The answer is it just depends.

Mine have access to adult temps (for me that is upper 90s basking and down to as cool as 50 nights) and they do great. Most here on the forums use cooler temps day/warmer temps nights. They are misted for 20 minutes 1x or 2x per day depending on ambient humidity and how they look when I check them. Usually 1x that long is fine in my situation.

You will need tiny food like fruitflies, baby crickets, baby mealworms, baby roaches of some species (lobster roach babies are small enough for my baby veileds).

I use screen enclosures loosely packed full of twigs so all the space inside is usable and so thermal gradients are set up where the chams can choose to be as close as they want to the lights. That is very important- you don't want to provide temps I mentioned unless you can provide a thermal gradient where your chameleons can move to locations with a variety of temperatures and choose exactly what they want. In a small tub- high temps can dehydrate tiny babies fairly rapidly. They have to have cooler temps available as well.

As they grow, I sort the fast growers out from the slower ones.

I've raised them other ways too- in tanks and tubs I hand misted 3-5 times a day when the enclosures completely dried out. I don't like those setups now a days. Hand misting you have to be around to do, and it is easy to make puddles that take longer to dry out and drown baby insects. But if I raised babies in my home instead of my lizard building, I'd probably still do it that way.

 

[jezzie]

Thanks for the advice. I've been looking stuff up online for the last well, 7 months and to be honest I'd rather hear from someone who's done it lol.

Cheers!

 

[Lizardguy1]

What species are you breeding? Veileds?

 

[jezzie]

Yes. Veileds. Cute lil guys lol. One hatched