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Chameleon cages.

sea_in_the_city May 16, 2004 10:04 PM

Here's a pic of the 2 cage sizes I built. The smaller is for my females (18"x24"x30" of living space). The larger is for my males (24"x24"x42" of living space). I don't house members of the same sex together, these are just examples. Only one cham to a cage. I fill a gallon jug, with a valve I plumb into the bottom, with RO water. I set it at a rate so that it takes about 8 hours to empty. It drips over the leaves and into a rubbermaid container under the screen. I empty these every other day (but can go 5 days if I need to). Thet each contain about 12 feet of real woody vine from the woods nearby, and fake vines with leaves wrapped around them from Walmart (2-3 styles of leaves usually for realism). They each have a 40 watt basking lamp and 2 will share a 30 watt 5.0 reptiglo flo bulb (both on for 8 hours a day). They are on my back porch which gets about 3 hours of dappled sunlight through the trees in the late afternoon. When the light hits them the chams always sit right in it. I mist the leaves in each cage every morning to simulate morning dew, and fill the drippers. Any comments would be more than welcome.

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Doug.

0.1 Veiled Chameleon
1.3 Ambanja Chameleons
1.1 Blue bar Ambilobe Chameleons (now 1.0 )
1 marine reef aquarium (home)
1 marine aquarium store

Replies (2)

chacoantegu May 17, 2004 07:54 PM

some live plants would help liven things up.

sea_in_the_city May 18, 2004 07:15 AM

Nice pun. I've tried live plants before and they just seem to rot. I've decided I don't like using them and the chams don't seem to mind. Thanks though. Have a good day.
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Doug.

0.1 Veiled Chameleon
1.3 Ambanja Chameleons
1.1 Blue bar Ambilobe Chameleons (now 1.0 )
1 marine reef aquarium (home)
1 marine aquarium store

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