Housing Female Veileds Together?

[Dyesub Dave]

OK ... I already know that this isn't advisable but let me explain the situation. I currently have 2 adult female veileds that could likely use larger enclosures. I also have a male and female juvenile chameleon. And I recently purchased a 100 gallon flexarium.

I would like to put the juvie chams in the smaller enclosures that the adult females are in now and put the females together in the flexarium. I was just wondering if the flexarium was densly planted enough if the females could co-exist in an enclosure of this size? I do have another medium sized enclosure that I could put one of the females in but I really don't have the room for it and the 100 gal. enclosure.

Any thoughts or advice from your experiences with similar situations would be appreciated.

Thanks ... Dyesub Dave.

 

[skeeta]

Geeze ... I don't have personal experience with Veilds, but our little Meru Jackson lives in a 6 foot Flex (I think it's 260 gallon) and enjoys it immensely. Can't imagine her SHARING (selfish thing)!

Now veilds are about 4 or 5 times the size, and squeezing 2 into an enclosure less than half the size seems a bit close to me. That being said I have read of keepers in Europe raising GROUPS in relatively small enclosures.

 

[jannb]

They each need a separate cage. Housing 2 together will not work. Jann

 

[budthecham]

id do it, just like you said heavily plant it and make sure they both will have a little "hide corner" they will also need their own basking bulbs at each end of the cage and so that they cant see each other. and own feeder cups if you use that method

 

[Oliver]

I was wondering the same exact thing too. Has anyone here housed two female Veileds together successfully?

 

[Dave]

I really wouldn't suggest this. Even if you give each a hiding spot, 1 female will eventually establish dominance, take control of the basking spot and the other female will be pushed into her "hiding corner" where she'll stay, very depressed and stressed.

Definitely a no go on this, not only do you need to have 2 seperate cages, but you need to make sure they don't catch sight of eachother. They feel threatened by the very sight of another cham.

-Dave

 

[spencer k]

try it, and let us know how it works out. if they cant see each other when they are basking, feeding ect, then it might work. if you see them getting stressed or territorial, seperate them.

i really think the animals will let you know they are not happy (not eating, displaying defensive posture/colors, ect)

 

[SoCaliSon]

Why are people telling him to try this!?!? Unless you have years and years of experience, all day every day to sit and observe the animals... with a seasoned understanding of their behaviors so you can determine if the cohabitaion is detremental or not, then you should not do it. Buy another cage... Don't expose your chams to potential stress just because you feel the need to cut a few corners.

 

[Flomeleon84]

I have 2 females (sisters actually) i bought in 2005 who have been together since they were tiny babies and have been kept in the same 4'L x 3'W x 6'T cage and i have never bred them, and i found out that since they have never been bred and have been raised together than i could keep them together. I found this out after putting them in thier own cages and they got really stressed out not having the other with them.

~Michael Drake~
aka Randy / Eky

P.S. I just read another post about keeping them out of sight of each other and forgot to mention that mine do everything together such as feeding, basking, climbing, and anything else they do along with being held (climbing all over me) at the same time​

 

[SoCaliSon]

Chameleons are not pack animals like Humans, Cats, Dogs... and most pets that can and will, and even benifit from living with a companion. Chameleons are naturally solitary reptiles, that in the wild will make every effort to stay away from other animals with the acception of mating. Your chameleons do not love eachother...and they do not miss eacother while they arre seperated. You are misinterpretting their behaviors.

 

[Eyal]

I wouldnt recommend it.. If something goes wrong, you will end up with one dead cham. Dont try it.. You dont try putting 2 predators that are individually living

 

[BocaJan]

I had my 2 baby girls in the same cage until about 4 months. One was always hiding in a leafy spot and the other would go to the top of the cage. There was never an issue between them although when feeding they would shoot at the same cricket sometimes.

When I bought another cage the hiding one came out of her spot and was more "social" while the other one crawled around her cage more searching out food.

I am glad I didn't wait any longer.