What you say is true but those trees are still the best plants available for other reasons. I use both of these trees and what I would suggest is to go with the Broadleaf Sheffelera or Umbrella plants (sheffelera amate) for large Chameleons and use small Ficus or Pothos with any babies or juvenile. The varigrated Sheffelera and the Ficus plants will always have a tendency to drop leaves indoors even with fresh air circulating. The braodleaf Scheffelera is the only plant that I know of that can take a lot of water and not develop root rot and it is also good at standing up to a Chams abuse. I keep a couple of extra plants to swap out if one of my Chams is a little rough on them. The Veileds have such super grips that they are really tough on the plants. With the Umbrella plants, they drop their leaves starting at the bottom first so most of the leaves are at the top after a while so chose a tree that is a good height for your cages so you will have some leaves left at the right height after a couple of months. Keeping a Chameleon is an expensive thing and you'll go thru lots of plants during your Chameleon's life. Change your plants out when you change your UVB bulbs. It doesn't help to keep the spare plants outside. Once you bring them in they'll drop their leaves. Its just one of those things where there isn't really a way to win

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