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I have an adult female Jackson and right now she is in a 175gal Reptarium. I just purchased a 260gal Reptarium for her. She hasn't been moved yet, we are remodeling our house so she will have to wait until we are done, but is that too much room for a lone Cham?

Thanks,
sdaly

You can never give a chameleon enough room
The bigger the better, literally. The only issues you have to
worry about when going large are 1. finding food (does she cup feed, or free range insects?) If the enclosure gets too large, finding food is a problem, but usually only in a large room setup, or with very small chameleons. Crickets are easy to find in a 260 rept.
2. Light.. can you provide enough light to penetrate down to the floor of the cage? (I use about 4 24" reptisun flourecent tubes and a clip light for a 260 reptarium, and that's still too dark at the bottom. Positioning the cage by a window helps ALOT.
3. Water.. Can you mist a large enough area for her to easily find a drink?
If you can meet those basic requirements, go as big as possible.
Garrett

All of those things are not as issue at all. As far as the lighting goes, she is near a window alreay and I use the Powersun MVB and a regluar light just to make it brighter.

The food issue, she is cup and handfed, but I do throw some crickets loose so she still will have the urge to hunt.

And the water, I have a habba mist set to go off every 3 hours for 1 minute straight and I mist her 2-4 times daily depending on my schedule at work.

So thanks for the input. I cant wait until we are done with our hose so I can start working on hers.

Thanks again,
Sdaly

If you haven't considered it already, houseflies (cultured) will give her great chances to hunt too. In the cage they tend to stay nearer the lights, but this also means they are really visible and "fun" to shoot at.