Thanks To Everyone!

[Augustine]

You all indirectly helped me to build my new enclosure for Ricky Bobby. (5.5 month old amboilbe)
This forum is where I got all my info for building my enclosure and I think I’m close to perfection.
This forum is awesome and any tips or tweaks that u could offer would be great!!
Thanks again
Gus

 

[SMCNARY]

Very nice!!! Well done

 

[Augustine]

Thanks i put in some good long nights after work
would you change anything?

 

[carol5208]

hello and welcome to the forums. It is hard to tell but it looks as if you do not have a vine or branch under your basking light. If so great, if not you will need something sturdy to hold your chameleon. That plant is very flimsy and might not be the best choice for climbing and especially basking. You want a plant with a lot of branches like a ficus or a sheffelera that can hold a chameleons weight especially as they grow. The branch or vine should be about 8 inches down or so. Make sure that when your chameleon basks, that no part of his body can ever touch the screen as they can get burned.

 

[Augustine]

Thanks Carlo
That tree was one of the only Cham friendly plants I could find for the time being
My other plant is a golden pothos
Will it get more ridged as it grows?
And how fast does a ficus grow the ones I see around are kinda tinny
Thanks for the welcome its nice to be apart of a great forum

 

[A1forall]

Nice build!!!!

 

[sulley]

very nicely done.add some more pathways tho.vines/bamboo and basking branches for both heat & uv

 

[ChuWuti]

Augustine, the enclosure is really beautiful! You're off to a great start!

Your tree appears to be some type of Draecena. If it is, I believe that while the trunks will slowly grow thicker, the leaves won't grow sturdier, so they'll always sag under the weight of a chameleon. I don't believe its growth rate is very high due to its woody trunk, as woody plants tend to grow more slowly than vines, etc.

Ficus benjamina has a relatively low growth rate as well, for the same reason. However, you could buy one now and begin to grow it up if you liked.

Scheffleras (Schefflera arboricola being the one most used in chameleon enclosures) grow somewhat faster, yet the stems that hold the leaves tend to be rather thin. However, many people use Schefflera because it provides lots of hiding places for a cham, and as it grows, the lower stems thicken and become sturdier.

As Carol5208 suggested, your best bet is probably to incorporate some artificial vine going up and across the enclosure in several places to help fill in open areas as well as to provide a basking area at the appropriate level. As your Epipremnum aureum (the golden pothos) grows, you could wrap it around the artificial vines to give your cham more hiding places.

Good luck with "finishing" (I use that word a bit tongue-in-cheek, because from what I'm seeing, there's no such thing as a completely "finished" enclosure for a cham; they are always in process!) up your enclosure!

Sandy

 

[Augustine]

Thanks guys I’ve been adding plenty of new additions to my enclosure and keeping my eye out for new plants.
Also I am staring to get this never stop adding and tweaking thing, I just want more and better!
Hope everyone had a good weekend and you didn’t drink too much green beer
Gus