New cham, healthy?

[Seymourn]

Hello all! My boyfriend and I just recently got our first veiled cham. We have done our research but we just want to check in to see if we have everything right.

Temp: 75-80 degrees f. in the habitat with ability to go up to basking spot at higher temp.

Humidity: keeping between 40-60

we have fake plants, food bowl, branch.

we have an automatic mister.
we have a little dripper for drinking.
We have basking light 40w
We have UVB reptisun 5.0

we have been feeding him small crickets and meal worms.

Here are some pictures and I am looking for recommendations to help this guy live his happiest life.

 

[Coop]

Drop the mealworms, and is the uvb linear? What are you gutloading with and how many crickets?

 

[Seymourn]

It is a linear bulb. We use orange to gutload and he is eating around 6 crickets a day.

 

[Coop]

Try feeding ten crickets and get rid of the orange cubes, and instead feed with carrots, greens, and other vegetables, or use repashy bug burger or cricket crack.

 

[Christel]

So, a citrus orange isn't good? I thought it was a recommended gutload fruit, alongside Mangos...

 

[Coop]

Oops, sorry. Thought it said the orange cubes, the fluker's ones. Keep using oranges.

 

[Seymourn]

Oops, sorry. Thought it said the orange cubes, the fluker's ones. Keep using oranges.

Put the veggies and orange peels in with the crickets correct?

 

[kinyonga]

Welcome to the forum!

Eventually you will want to get real plants... non toxic well washed both sides of the leaves since wailed chameleons tend to munch on vegetation.

What supplements are you using and how often for each? Please tell the brand and whether they have D3 or vitamin A (beta carotene, retinol, retinyl, retinal, etc) in them.

A dripper made from a deli cup with a small hole in the bottom it so it drips at the rate of one or two drips per second would be good too.

 

[Coop]

Put the veggies and orange peels in with the crickets correct?

that's what i do for mine. I pick the ones that are directly on the veggies, so i know about the gutload.

 

[Ruthless]

Your Cham is not a bird ?. So I would get rid of the ladder. Idk why people do this in the first place?‍

 

[salty dog]

I don't think the ladder is so bad, but the chams viv needs branches and vines vertical & horizontal to climb on, if the ladder is in with all that, should be ok

 

[The Wild One]

Your Cham is not a bird ?. So I would get rid of the ladder. Idk why people do this in the first place?‍

I think that people when they first see it, think that it will make the enclosure pleasing to the eye.

 

[salty dog]

Here is a picture of a viv I am building now

 

[Seymourn]

Your Cham is not a bird ?. So I would get rid of the ladder. Idk why people do this in the first place?‍

We got him 2 days ago and we live in a small town. Still trying to find branches.

 

[salty dog]

Use oak tree or mulberry tree branches, that's what I use also manzanita

 

[The Wild One]

We got him 2 days ago and we live in a small town. Still trying to find branches.

You can go out after someone trimmed their trees or something like that, and use those branches once they put them out for the trash. I got some really pretty ones from my neighbors.

 

[Seymourn]

Sometimes he turns greyish when he’s in his habitat but we have read so many different things that this could mean. Is it okay for him to sometimes go this color?

 

[The Wild One]

Sometimes he turns greyish when he’s in his habitat but we have read so many different things that this could mean. Is it okay for him to sometimes go this color?

If he’s under his basking light while he’s doing it, he’s probably turning darker to absorb more heat

 

[Seymourn]

Thank you so much !