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I have a veiled chameleon who is about 4 months old and have had for 2 months. I recently put a medium size waterfall in her cage to drink from. The problem is is that I havent seen her drink from it and I have had it in the cage for about a week. I am worried she is not getting any water. Will she drink from it if she is REALLY thirsty or is there something else I need to do just incase she isnt getting any water and is scared to drink from it? Thanks.

Are you offering water any other way such as daily spraying or a dripper? Chams don't usually drink from waterfalls and they are a real pain to keep clean. One crix drowning in it creates a soup of bacteria unless you clean the thing every day or so. Occasionally a cham will learn to drink from a bowl but they are usually desperate enough to climb down to the "ground" to do it. Not ideal. Waterfalls don't raise the cage humidity enough to be worth the work either. The more reliable ways to water a cham are to spray the foliage with hot water (it cools to warm quickly) and to set up a dripper that falls onto leaves with a catch basin underneath.