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Carlton
at Tue Oct 5 19:51:04 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carlton ]
You've been REALLY lucky she's lived for 3 years. Chams can see basically any visible light, so the heat lamp at night (even those dark blue or red lights) has been stressing her. Unless the room gets down below 60 you don't need any heat at night. Turn it off. Keeping a cham in a tank past the baby stage is also very tricky and discouraged. Tanks tend to stay too warm from day to night and don't provide very good air exchange unless you rig up an auxillary fan or vents. It is only a matter of time before she has respiratory problems...these can start slowly and by the time obvious symptoms show up can be very hard to treat. Tanks can be too humid or too dry and they don't provide a gradient of temp and humidity that the cham can move from when it needs to. Their reflections can really stress them out and they don't understand why they can't climb past the glass. They can spend hours pawing at it. Very frustrating for them. It is really kinder and healthier to use a screen cage instead. Size of veileds varies a lot partly because of simple heredity, general health and nutrition, stress etc.
In case you haven't seen these sites, here are some good ones to check out:
http://www.adcham.com
http://www.chameleonjournals.com
http://www.chameleonnews.com
http://www.calumma.com
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RE: tank requirements - Carlton, Tue Oct 5 19:51:04 2004