New guy!

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Hi people!

Figured i would join this forum as it seems the place to be for Chameleon related stuff!

Just literally got a set up this week and got the little guy (juvenile Yemen) yesterday, seems to be settling in well, doing a lot of hiding though!

Anyone have any little tips for the structure of the viv? Obviously I don't want to stress him out to much.

 

[Nicholasdeaan]

Needs more foliage.

 

[Avkidd1980]

Awwww! I have this same set up (sort of). I'm having two screen cages made ( one for outside during summer) and one for inside.

 

[Lowprofile]

Needs more foliage.

Yeah I thought that aswell, couple more branches maybe

 

[thatscool567]

Definitely more foliage, and I would recommend a mesh cage. But, this is good too.

 

[Mikesyring]

Put a live plant in like porthos

 

[Lazereth]

I would remove the substrate asap, could potentially eat it while hunting food....

 

[alphakenc]

Hey New guy,u got a cute cham over there,but dont let him get burn from that heat lamp ,he is too young to have a burn mark tattoo on his back right now....

 

[Avkidd1980]

Hey New guy,u got a cute cham over there,but dont let him get burn from that heat lamp ,he is too young to have a burn mark tattoo on his back right now....

Yeah.... Just maybe lower that plant a little? i read about 4 to 7 inches from the heat source.

 

[alphakenc]

From my beauty point of the view,plant should be more visible,but from my health inspection point of view,ur cham will thank you later for that...,what you gona do when your friends and family come over and ask you...."Hi Avkidd1980,what is that black mark on his back or stomach??"
I know you wouldn't tell them "it just a beauty birth mark guys"....it just my friendly suggestion

 

[alphakenc]

While u doing that please put more plant in there so he can play hide and seek ,just for his privacy purpose,...and btw screen cage are usually better with the vivarium,so he wont see his own reflection like a evil witch in the snow white mirror

 

[JGuinan007]

You should get a dragon's blood tree for your cage

 

[alphakenc]

You should get a dragon's blood tree for your cage

U mean the Dracaena cinnabari??

I wouldn't suggest that at all,try use some
Schefflera arboricola, Pothos, Hibiscus, and Ficus non toxic plants its better for ur veiled.

 

[Avkidd1980]

From my beauty point of the view,plant should be more visible,but from my health inspection point of view,ur cham will thank you later for that...,what you gona do when your friends and family come over and ask you...."Hi Avkidd1980,what is that black mark on his back or stomach??"
I know you wouldn't tell them "it just a beauty birth mark guys"....it just my friendly suggestion

Lol.... This was not my post.... I was just agreeing with you. Plant is a bit to close to bulb.

 

[alphakenc]

Lol.... This was not my post.... I was just agreeing with you. Plant is a bit to close to bulb.

Thank you

 

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Cheers guys, i shall give it a shift around tonight, lower the basking spot and move some of the plants around.

I've got some new susbtrate to go in, some plantation soil.

I will pop and get some more plants on sunday, i did think there wasnt enough for him to hide in.

 

[Mikesyring]

No substrate the soil is no good he will eat it should be nothing or if your set on something big rocks that he can't eat but that will make it a pain to clean so up to u

 

[Avkidd1980]

I put reptile carpet in mine... Looks like rough felt. But I like it because he can't ingest it and you can take it out a sterilize it when you need to. I am no professional chameleon keeper but I also has substrate in mine when I fist got him a month ago and read they can ingest the substrate and become impacted. Not sure it's the same with the dirt substrate but with the humidity you need to keep... I would think it would get moldy and hard to keep.

 

[Mikesyring]

Yeah mold and they will eat it

 

[gotwqqd]

I'm putting down polished flat Mexican pebble in mine