My cage for my new baby veiled.

[jojackson]

poor little dehydrated babies

"Somebody PLEASE Think Of the children!!!!!!!"

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Of course when you go home, make sure to boil the wood, then cook them in the oven at 400* for about an hour to kill any critters that might be on, or in it.

I think probably 90% of the "stuff" in my chameleon enclosures is collected in the field. And, yes, river beds are great!
I feel like a bit of a hypocrite because in the beginning I'm sure I gave people the advice to bake sticks (sounded like a good idea to me) but I have never baked, boiled or bleached a single twig.
I do wash plants very well, but branches, dirt, mosses, leaf litter, bark, etc. I just stick right in.

-Brad

 

[dodolah]

do whatever that works, man
In my case, poor those drowning babies . just kidding, people.

 

[Pure]

The animal is about half that old but is eating and drinking great and will not be shipped. Teresa will have no trouble raising her.

I might mist the cristatus for five minutes, but I don't have a veiled of any age that I subject to that.

Just about everybody gets misted morning and night here (2 times a day) about 30 seconds to a minute each and the adults have drippers , the babies do not ... poor little dehydrated babies

-Brad

I'm not experienced enough to say one way or the other. Tis why I asked. I get the feeling now that the long misting sessions advised by most sites is just to make sure noobs are getting their animals enough water.

You're site is one of the only one's I've read on veiled care that isn't specific on the duration. You do say a "few to several minutes". To most a few is 3 to 5 and several is over 5, but that's splitting hairs..not my intention.

Thank you for clearing this up for me. Now I can stop drowning my Veiled and not worry so much. The Melleri...well they get 2 30 minute 20 gal showers a day. And they will like it! kidding..they do love it though.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Thank you for alerting me to the info on the Kitty site.
I have been working on tweaking things on there as I make adjustments in how I am doing things here, but had missed that. (no pun intended )
Information and husbandry practices should be somewhat fluid ... all of us are making adjustments and trying new things ... learning from the animals.
I don't like the dogmatic advice I often see given, I would rather see people work on understanding/ reading the animals and sharing adjustments they make along the way.
Veiled Chameleons have only been kept in the states since 1992.
It is a very new practice.

-Brad

 

[Teresa]

New branches added! I just want this little girl to be happy
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Will this be enough branches?

 

[Miss Lily]

That is interesting about the misting. No matter how long I misted for, I never really saw Lily drink properly, and she completely ignored the dripper whenever I offered it (usually in her outdorr cage). I've been told that they breathe in a certain amount of water due to the humidity from the misting anyway. Having only once seen Lily drink from a leaf on the day I got her, I would like to add that her post mortem showed that her kidneys were normal looking, which leads me to think that perhaps they don't need as much water as we are led to believe.

I agree that 5 mins misting would probably be way too much for a baby veiled I mist my 14 week old baby's cage slowly until the leaves are dripping with large drips, let it finish dripping, then mist again for a couple of minutes. We've only seen her drink once so far too, and we've had her for a week now.

 

[Teresa]

All of my chams drink from their dripers and everyone seem hydrated. Only Oggie likes to be misted but I do mist cages 2x a day and with the baby cage I use approx. 40 oz. of water for all 5 cages.

 

[gary1621]

Our little Peanut sits where i mist and she opens and closes her mouth, working her tongue up and down her throat. I see her drink from the leaves roughly every other day. I've even seen her strike at the drip on the end of a leaf a couple of times.

I mist her 2 - 3 times a day for about 2 minutes, not constantly, i dont want to freak her out


The cage set up looks cool, i like the natural branches. I was just wondering if there are any plants or branches lower down in your set up? I know my little Veild likes to explore the lower parts of her set up as much as the higher parts. Im sure others with more experience will be able to offer a more valued opinion

 

[Teresa]

I love the name peanut to cute. My Mello will acutely stick his tongue in the driper hose if it is dripping to slow.