Large outdoor enclosure...co-hab different species?

I have made a large outdoor enclosure for my brookesia stumpffi - about 6ft. W x 3.5ft. D x 4ft. H...(a big difference from his 40 gallon indoor enclosure). Needless to say, this is a huge enclosure for him and it's heavily planted....it takes me up to an hour to find him.
My question is...can I add a Carpet Chameleon to this enclosure? They are more arboreal and the brookesia is more land. Will it just cause stress knowing they're close by? Anyone have any experience with this?
 
This might help…
“The unmistakable bottom line is that the best husbandry approach is one chameleon per cage”…
https://www.chameleonbreeder.com/podcast/ep-107-keeping-chameleons-together/


Carpet chameleons…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe...rvation,grasslands and well-vegetated gardens.

Brookesia stumphi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook...i, also known as,Nosy Komba, and Nosy Sakatia.

Things to think about…
They come from different areas so would be exposed to different bacteria, environments, etc which would be even more of a concern if they are wild caught.

How do you know one wouldn’t try to eat the other or at the very least fight to get it out of what it might consider it’s territory?
 
I wouldn’t, chameleons have amazingly good eye sight as you probably know. Even with a large enclosure they’ll still notice each other and if size allows, one will try to eat the other. I had my parsons in a ~9ftx4.5ftx8ft outdoor enclosure that was densely planted… this man would still find a small isopod or earth worm poking up from the dirt when he was hungry.
 
I have seen multiple chameleons in an enclosure done a couple of times. Ardi Abate and a local wholesaler kept chameleons comunially in there largest enclosures. Although the two were know as accomplished keepers, I would not recommend attempting to keep chameleons together outside of breeding. Chameleons are territorial species and can become extremely territorial as visual species on some occasions. I would recommend keeping species and individuals seperately.

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich
 
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