Lisamarie
New Member
So I went into my local mom and pop owned pet store for hornworms for my pac man frog. Looked at all the critters and saw this little girl.
She was in a six inch by 8 inch glass box with screen lid, one water bowl and one twisty thin branch. No cover, no mist on anything. Awful.
I do not have chameleon experience. I did not have a cage or plans for one. But I couldn’t leave her there so I bought her the only chameleon cage they had for sale 16x16x30 if only because I had nothing to put her in at home. (It can become an emergency cage later or whatever, no big deal since I figured it’d likely be too small for the long term.)
She was pretty out of it when we got home and I set up the cage. Very lethargic seeming from the stress of it all. I set up her enclosure as best I could quickly; using an organic ficus tree with new safe soil (no fertilizer) that completely fills up the space and some vines twisting all through it. I misted her cage, let her slowly crawl onto a vine and turned off the lights ASAP so she could de stress a bit.
This morning I went and turned her uvb and heat lights on and she seems more peppy. I misted her plant again and put a hornworm in a dish for her perched precariously on a vine. How do you feed your chameleons on a tree? Do you attach a bowl up high somehow? She hasn’t eaten anything here yet.
I know I have severely newbie questions but she does have a vet appt scheduled tomorrow. I have read the care file here for veiled and I guess I just need some advice from people on how to best care for her? Also about how old do you think she is? She seems skinny to me but I don’t know what’s normal. I’ll attach some pics of her and her enclosure as it is right now. She’s hiding and I won’t disturb her so the pics aren’t great. She’s about 3 to 3 1/2 inches in length from nose to bum. ( not counting tail)
I’ll update the thread with better pics if I get them.
Her name is Sakura.
She was in a six inch by 8 inch glass box with screen lid, one water bowl and one twisty thin branch. No cover, no mist on anything. Awful.
I do not have chameleon experience. I did not have a cage or plans for one. But I couldn’t leave her there so I bought her the only chameleon cage they had for sale 16x16x30 if only because I had nothing to put her in at home. (It can become an emergency cage later or whatever, no big deal since I figured it’d likely be too small for the long term.)
She was pretty out of it when we got home and I set up the cage. Very lethargic seeming from the stress of it all. I set up her enclosure as best I could quickly; using an organic ficus tree with new safe soil (no fertilizer) that completely fills up the space and some vines twisting all through it. I misted her cage, let her slowly crawl onto a vine and turned off the lights ASAP so she could de stress a bit.
This morning I went and turned her uvb and heat lights on and she seems more peppy. I misted her plant again and put a hornworm in a dish for her perched precariously on a vine. How do you feed your chameleons on a tree? Do you attach a bowl up high somehow? She hasn’t eaten anything here yet.
I know I have severely newbie questions but she does have a vet appt scheduled tomorrow. I have read the care file here for veiled and I guess I just need some advice from people on how to best care for her? Also about how old do you think she is? She seems skinny to me but I don’t know what’s normal. I’ll attach some pics of her and her enclosure as it is right now. She’s hiding and I won’t disturb her so the pics aren’t great. She’s about 3 to 3 1/2 inches in length from nose to bum. ( not counting tail)
I’ll update the thread with better pics if I get them.
Her name is Sakura.
