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Cham Housing / Opinions Please

dragonbirds May 03, 2004 12:06 PM

This is the new enclosure for my Jacksons' Barney and Thelma Lou. I am still waiting for the mister to arrive and I was thinking about putting a large Ficus on the floor but I don't think there will be enough light for the Ficus to survive.
There is a Pothos on the bamboo stand and that seems to be doing really well so far.
BTW this is a 100gal Reptarium. So that may give you a better idea on the size of things in there.
I would love to hear everyone's opinions.
Thanks for looking and thank you in advance for yoyr thoughts.
Shannon

Replies (4)

gomezvi May 03, 2004 12:24 PM

Barney and Thelma Lou? Shannon, are you attempting to house a male and female Jackson's chameleon together?
Your enclosure looks nice, but I would question keeping a jax pair housed together.
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dragonbirds May 03, 2004 01:11 PM

No Thelma Lou is in a smaller enclosure. Barney will be in this enclosure. Both the enclosures are going to look pretty much the same. The only time they will be together is if I breed them.

Carlton May 03, 2004 04:18 PM

I think you will end up needing more plants to help keep the humidity up in such a nice large cage. The chams would prefer to have more foliage to hide in too. I go by the rule "if I can't find them it's about right". More is usually better and will give them more travelling space.

dwedeking May 04, 2004 08:50 PM

I'll second Carlton's recommendation, especially with the Jacksons species. They tend to thrive in an extremely leafy environment. On my colonies, when you open the cage door the plant just about pops out of the cage. Then you have to start "digging" to find any of them
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