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gomezvi
at Sun Jun 6 14:13:08 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gomezvi ]
First off, I'm no expert. What I'm posting here are my own personal observations.
I have a batch of young veiled chameleons that started hatching late march/early april. I've kept my chameleons in a small screen enclosure with a solid bottom. Although I reccommend using live plants with your chameleons, I have not followed my own advise in setting up their environment. I've set them up with very small leafed plastic vines. The weather here in Perris, CA has been VERY warm (about 95 today), so I've been keeping them outside from day one, giving them plenty of shade and misting them at least twice a day. Because they're gettin PLENTY of sunshine, we only dust the crickets about once a week. I followed someone's (Lele I think) advice and I've kept a small bowl of shredded vegies for the crix in the cage. Gives the crix something to eat, makes them concentrate in one spot, and keeps the crix off the babies.
Seems we're always misting these guys. Whenever possible I put all my chameleons on the front lawn and run the sprinklers for them. Out of 46 eggs laid, 36 hatched. We lost 4 babies altogether, but these had issues from the very beginning.
Forgot what my point was in posting this. Maybe to stress the importance of giving them exposure to UVB. Umm... ya, that's it!
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Victor Gomez
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Just putting in my tw cents.... - gomezvi, Sun Jun 6 14:13:08 2004