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First time Chamelon Owner Jackson Babies

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Posted by: endangeredjen at Sun Jul 17 18:03:59 2011  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by endangeredjen ]  
   

I am a first time chameleon owner, I was going to buy an adult Jackson, but to make a long story short, ended up with 3 baby Jacksons. I live in Hawaii,came across someone who was selling them 3 for $10. I realize now that this was not such a bargain considering the care that is required for these animals. That being said, I do have the time, persistence and resources to care for them. I work from home and live very close to multiple pets stores. I have two males and one female. I was told that they are about a month old, small horns have started to grow, maybe they are a bit older (I am hoping). They are changing colors, but not to green as of yet. The bigger male is 3 inches long from snout to tail, the female is a bit smaller. I have had them for 2 days now, very nervous about them surviving but I'm willing to do my best. I bought an 18 x 12 x 20 inch screened cage for them. They have two pieces of drift wood and plastic non toxic plants in there. They are drinking and have been eating pinhead crickets, each one has been eating about three in a row. What I'm finding is that the crickets are hiding in the cage, no telling how many crickets are in the cage right now, which is not good. When will they be able to eat the small crickets? Each one is good at hunting, pretty proficient, although, sort of lost when the crickets go to the bottom of the cage. I've been misting about once every hour, whenever I see that the plants are dry, I was told that they need to be hydrated constantly. On the flip side, I did spray them a couple times and I'm finding that this is not good, and will make a point to not spray them anymore. The temperature in the cage is about 82 to 84, at night time is drops to about 72, 70 at the lowest, we are in Hawaii in summer, the humidity is very high here as well. It has been getting hot, this morning it was up to about 88 almost 90, I was worried and turned on the fans to cool down the room. Currently, they are in a brightly lit room, direct sunlight on half the cage in the morning, but I was thinking that this might not be such a good thing since the temperature did heat up so much earlier. When I woke up two were in the sunny side and once was on the shaded side. I have the option of keeping them outside later on, once they get bigger. Right now, they are not fighting at all, I do realize they need to be separated at some point. How do you think I am doing? I don't know when I should be feeding them, I fed them three times yesterday, I am worried that there are a lot of pinheads in the cage with them, all hiding... Any help would be great appreciated. I don't know what to look for if things are going south...


   

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