DePseu
New Member
Hello! I'm kind of new here, and decided I'd introduce myself and my graceful, Somnia.
My boyfriend and I have wanted a reptile for some time now, and after searching had finally settled on a chameleon as our ideal pet. After months of researching and preparing for our little lizard friend, we were finally ready to go and pick him/her up. Several of our local pet stores carry veiled (the genus we had settled on), but there was one particular pet store that had a herpetologist and experienced personnel in their reptile room. At the time, they only carried a Jackson's, a Senegal, and a Graceful. The next week was their sale, and though we were nervous (we had heard that graceful chameleons were more difficult to care for) we fell in love with the graceful and decided to purchase her.
Her screen habitat is 18" x 20" x 22", and we've filled it with vines, branches, and several plastic and silk plants.
We have a drip system in the corner over one of the smaller plants that we've slowly been attempting to get her to recognize as a main source of water (so as to monitor if/when she is thirsty and might need more water), and we mist her habitat at least five times a day for three minutes though she doesn't like the sound of the misting bottle too much.
We're currently using a 50W UVA incandescent day bulb that we switch at night for a 60W night bulb, and we keep the cage at a consistent 79 degrees with a drop to 70 at night, and the humidity between 70 - 100%.
When we first brought her home, she slept a lot and didn't move around much, but now roams around her habitat quite happily. Her urate is white, and she's quite the little piggy with her 1/2 inch crickets, which we plan to spray twice a week with vitamin and calcium supplements.
She seems perfectly content with us around.
There's no sign of her being "bow-legged" (MBD), no sign of mouth rot, her color is good, and her eyes aren't sunken.
It's a lengthy introduction, I'm sorry, but the main point is I'm confused. We had planned on doing the same thing for a veiled (with different preferred temps and humidity, of course). Is there anything we should be doing that we are not? We can't find much information online for gracefuls (hence, our apprehension), and though I THINK we're doing a pretty good job with the information we've been provided, we're definitely open for some advice.
Thank you!
My boyfriend and I have wanted a reptile for some time now, and after searching had finally settled on a chameleon as our ideal pet. After months of researching and preparing for our little lizard friend, we were finally ready to go and pick him/her up. Several of our local pet stores carry veiled (the genus we had settled on), but there was one particular pet store that had a herpetologist and experienced personnel in their reptile room. At the time, they only carried a Jackson's, a Senegal, and a Graceful. The next week was their sale, and though we were nervous (we had heard that graceful chameleons were more difficult to care for) we fell in love with the graceful and decided to purchase her.
Her screen habitat is 18" x 20" x 22", and we've filled it with vines, branches, and several plastic and silk plants.
We have a drip system in the corner over one of the smaller plants that we've slowly been attempting to get her to recognize as a main source of water (so as to monitor if/when she is thirsty and might need more water), and we mist her habitat at least five times a day for three minutes though she doesn't like the sound of the misting bottle too much.
We're currently using a 50W UVA incandescent day bulb that we switch at night for a 60W night bulb, and we keep the cage at a consistent 79 degrees with a drop to 70 at night, and the humidity between 70 - 100%.
When we first brought her home, she slept a lot and didn't move around much, but now roams around her habitat quite happily. Her urate is white, and she's quite the little piggy with her 1/2 inch crickets, which we plan to spray twice a week with vitamin and calcium supplements.
She seems perfectly content with us around.
There's no sign of her being "bow-legged" (MBD), no sign of mouth rot, her color is good, and her eyes aren't sunken.
It's a lengthy introduction, I'm sorry, but the main point is I'm confused. We had planned on doing the same thing for a veiled (with different preferred temps and humidity, of course). Is there anything we should be doing that we are not? We can't find much information online for gracefuls (hence, our apprehension), and though I THINK we're doing a pretty good job with the information we've been provided, we're definitely open for some advice.
Thank you!
Thanks a lot! 
