chameleons707
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hey this is my very first thread!! i am new to this sooo.. well i have been interested in buying a baby veiled chameleon for 5 years now. the closest petstores in my city are petco and this family run buisness. i was thinking of buying my baby chameleon from the family run buisness, because of petco rumours on the web. and when i went to the store the chameleon was pretty big probably in a 15 by 20 by 20 glass tank and looked pretty stressed out so decided to go to petco. i have bought many many pets from here and from my opinion they really care for their animals. i have bought a snake from here wich is now 5 years old and a crested gecko now 4 years old and doing great. i have never seen a sick animal here in this store! well when i was looking for the chameleons here they were in the widest longest tank they have in there.inside they had 4-6 bright reall active chameleons probably 2-3 inches long. in the tank they had a dripper thingy in the top corner, heavily dense fake plant vegetation, green soft carpet for substrate, a small mealworm bowl a feww dozen pin sized crickets inside and just a bluish long light probably uva?uvb but no basking light. temp inside read 85 degrees and humidity 70% overall they seemed quiet healthy and pretty fat lol. i am really interested in buying from petco but what do you guys think. should i really buy a chameleon from petco?? the workers really knew what they were doing . one of the assistance have been working for 15+ years! they said if for any reason it were to get sick i can get a trade back or leave the lizard back in the store and watch it closely to see if it does fine.