perkinschammie
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I wasn't totally sure where to put this..., so I put it in the General category. Alright, so I just got my first chameleon today. Here's some info about him-
- he's a male, a veiled chameleon, around two to three months old, but we're not positive. He is very friendly and active. He eats a lot, the pet store told us that's as in sixteen small crickets a day. We've given him about eight, since we've only had him for five hours, and he also ate a mealworm. He doesn't bite. He's about 8ish inches long.
His cage, although I'm not sure of the dimensions, is rather large, and tall, with glass and screen, and a screen top. He has a heat lamp and a UV lamp on top of his cage. As for bedding, we were told to put reptile carpet on the bottom, as he was too young for substrate. He has a water bowl with an air pump in it so that the water moves. He's got a pothos plant, a piece of drift wood that sits on the bottom, a piece of long driftwood that goes to about six inches from the top of the cage, some artificial plants suction cupped to the sides, and some vines and other artificial plants throughout his cage. It sits on a table that's about 3 1/2 feet off of the ground. We let the crickets we feed him crawl around the cage, but the mealworms sit in a bowl. We mist him and his cage quite a bit, but not too much. The humidity is about at 85% most of the time, and the heat is at 80-90 degrees Fahrenheit. We're also saving up for a humidifier.
So, here are my questions. Like I said, the lamps just sit on the screen (we were told this was fine), however our chameleon, (his name is Perkins), has been climbing up the screen and crawling on the top of the cage upside down and we are afraid he'll get burned. He has also fallen from it once, but fortunately we were able to catch him, but I'm afraid we won't be around to next time. There is no way to prevent him from climbing the screen that we have thought of.
So, I was just wondering if anyone had some advice about the above questions? And if you had any other helpful tips?
- he's a male, a veiled chameleon, around two to three months old, but we're not positive. He is very friendly and active. He eats a lot, the pet store told us that's as in sixteen small crickets a day. We've given him about eight, since we've only had him for five hours, and he also ate a mealworm. He doesn't bite. He's about 8ish inches long.
His cage, although I'm not sure of the dimensions, is rather large, and tall, with glass and screen, and a screen top. He has a heat lamp and a UV lamp on top of his cage. As for bedding, we were told to put reptile carpet on the bottom, as he was too young for substrate. He has a water bowl with an air pump in it so that the water moves. He's got a pothos plant, a piece of drift wood that sits on the bottom, a piece of long driftwood that goes to about six inches from the top of the cage, some artificial plants suction cupped to the sides, and some vines and other artificial plants throughout his cage. It sits on a table that's about 3 1/2 feet off of the ground. We let the crickets we feed him crawl around the cage, but the mealworms sit in a bowl. We mist him and his cage quite a bit, but not too much. The humidity is about at 85% most of the time, and the heat is at 80-90 degrees Fahrenheit. We're also saving up for a humidifier.
So, here are my questions. Like I said, the lamps just sit on the screen (we were told this was fine), however our chameleon, (his name is Perkins), has been climbing up the screen and crawling on the top of the cage upside down and we are afraid he'll get burned. He has also fallen from it once, but fortunately we were able to catch him, but I'm afraid we won't be around to next time. There is no way to prevent him from climbing the screen that we have thought of.
So, I was just wondering if anyone had some advice about the above questions? And if you had any other helpful tips?
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