Hello,



I am looking to get into owning chameleons. I have had multiple reptiles in the past. The longest living one was my Bearded Dragon that lived to be around 9.5 years old.



I have done a pretty good amount of research so I know what I'm getting into. I have pretty much completed my cage setup with the build and purchasing/placing plant. Any extra advice would be nice (I do know it is a bit large for a young one, but didn't really figure THAT out until later, I hope it will be OK).



What I have:



Cage is 50" tall, 26" deep and 28" wide.



I have a 24" 5.0 Repti Glo bulb along with a Zoo med basking lamp and a Repti Glo 2.0 light (I don't have the 2.0 light up and running yet, not sure if I will need it or not).



I have 2 live plants, a hanging Pothos and a Ficus (from what I know, these 2 are ok). I also have a Hibiscus plant that will be switched out occasionally with the Ficus for the flowers, or I can put it in now as it is MUCH smaller than the Ficus. I have already exchanged the pots the plants came in with new pots that have organic (no fertilizer) soil (now that was messy!)... and the plants have been cleaned.



I also have some fake plants/vines by the basking site so that I didn't kill the live plants... that is the idea anyway. I also have a thermometer, hydrometer and a dropper setup that isn't in the cage yet but purchased.



So... anything else before purchase? There is a 4" CBB Cham on sale right now at a local store that looks healthy so I was wanting to get him before he is gone, but as I've been working on this for a while I can handle waiting too if needed. I'll buy the supplements when I buy the Cham.



So, sorry for the long post. Hopefully my picture will show up too, but I can't see it in a preview.... hosted by Photobucket.




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1.0 Bearded Dragon (Charlie)

0.1 Corn Snake (Diamond)

1.1 Felines (Blacky and Princes)

1.0 Canine (Skeeter)

2.0 Cockatiels

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• Cage setup review request - oSmittyo, Sun Jul 29 20:07:12 2007
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• RE: Cage setup review request - sandrachameleon, Mon Jul 30 11:37:03 2007
• RE: Cage setup review request - Carlton, Mon Jul 30 12:07:23 2007
• RE: Cage setup review request - oSmittyo, Mon Jul 30 12:32:31 2007
• RE: Cage setup review request - oSmittyo, Mon Jul 30 18:16:25 2007
• RE: Cage setup review request - sandrachameleon, Mon Jul 30 22:06:48 2007
• RE: Cage setup review request - Carlton, Tue Jul 31 12:14:08 2007