Show off your cages!

[niels]

Those are awesome!!! I like how it's a whole wall of enclosures.

Do you ever have problems with keeping all the plants alive? I suppose you can't use fertilizers and such, huh?

No I never have problems with my plants.
and thanks

 

[JERM]

A few more...

Here are a couple more pictures of my cages. I have more cages I just don't have pics yet.

 

[JERM]

2 more...

2 more pictures.

 

[NEWfoundHOBBY]

general question

all of these cages look good, im impressed.
anyways, i was just wondering, how big on average do some chams get.......say vields for example........
thanks alot,
rusty

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

Veileds are biorn at about 2.75" including tail and the male can get to 24" with tail and female slightly smaller. Males have much more color than females, the females are very plain.

You can check the classifieds here
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pp_classifieds/showcat.php?cat=26

and auctions at reptileaucitons.com
http://www.reptileauctions.com/categories.php?parent=1861

Just keep in mind babies may be a lot less expensive but will need a smaller cage at first, they will eat a ton of fruit flies (cheap and easy to raise yourself) for several weeks then once they are on a good size cricket you can move them to a larger cage. They are very agressive eaters and will hunt down the food instead of waiting for it to come to them and they are wonderful to watch (not a handle type of pet as any cham). Lost of misting and food and they go to adult size very quickly by 6 to 6+ months. They do need a good amount of space as adults as well.

 

[NEWfoundHOBBY]

thx

thanks dragon, good to know
i currently have a couple of low matinence small reptiles that are no big deal......
for them i am currently breeding crickets. so my question is, for babies is it real important for them to have fruit flies, which i can do no problem....and i would only feed my cham the real small ones for starters.....just wondering.....


thanks rusty

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

Crickets are fine too, fruit flies are just more cost effective when they are really small or you have quite a few of them.

If you are breeding your own crickets that's great, you will always have the size you need as they grow!

 

[Will Hayward]

Will, that is so cool how they migrate. How do they go about feeding? Do they move to get food or wait for it to come to them?

Both actually. The sit in the branch above and look down once they have positioned themselves in an optimal place.

 

[Will Hayward]

All the photos in this thread are fantastic. Really great cages and lucky chameleons.

 

[MANTIS]

Here are some of our female cages.....

And some male cages.....

 

[YJHB]

OK, I just discovered this thread, and the preceding cage set ups are absolutely AWESOME, every one! I'm embarrassed to add my piddly little set ups here, but they're for sale so I really should!
The plants need work. I spent well over $200 trying to get the right Ficuses, so yes I know they're short, but it was the best I could do in my area.
Have fun looking at my short, expensive Ficuses... I killed the rest of 'em...

 

[Rebel Dragons]

I think they're cool looking!!!

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

Thanks for posting, those are some nice set ups Adam and Yvonne, yours look good too!

 

[YJHB]

aaww, thanks Would look a little better if I had some decent plants in there.

 

[JERM]

Just to let everyone know...

Just to let everone know, the glass enclosure that i have previously posted (55 gallon fish tank terrarium) with werneri in it is a temporary enclosure for them until I finished building their screen one. Glass is not normally a good type of enclosure for most chameleon species because it restricts air flow. Granted you can set up a nicer terrarium in a tank, the well being of the chameleon should come first. An option that I use sometimes is adding a screen enclosure on top of the glass tank. This works well in most cases because it also raises the humidity level. I just had to point that out since I didn't explain it with the photo.
By the way, everyone's cages look great! It looks like everyone really cares about their chams.

Jerm

 

[JERM]

Ficuses..

aaww, thanks Would look a little better if I had some decent plants in there.

YJHB,
I really like your ficuses. Did you buy them as a bonsai? They are awfully close to the ficus bonsais that I use for my babies. If so they might be worth more than you think. I will try to post a picture of bonsai to show you what I mean.

Jerm

 

[Chameleon Company]

Yvonne,
The "tinker toys", if they even call them that nowadays, are a great idea. Do they come in an unfinished natural tone? Could you give me the brand name, and where they are commonly purchased? Thanks.

 

[YJHB]

YJHB,
I really like your ficuses. Did you buy them as a bonsai? They are awfully close to the ficus bonsais that I use for my babies. If so they might be worth more than you think. I will try to post a picture of bonsai to show you what I mean.

Jerm

Actually, they are of a Ficus species that are commonly used as bonsai... Wandia or Wanda, I think. Yes, the one on the left side is a starter Bonsai tree; every darn Ficus I looked at either was way too big, or way too small except for these Bonsai types. I slowly killed the rest of them before doing away with the standing water under the trees. The one on the far right is a 'Midnight' ficus variety; it does the best in the moist conditions.

 

[YJHB]

Yvonne,
The "tinker toys", if they even call them that nowadays, are a great idea. Do they come in an unfinished natural tone? Could you give me the brand name, and where they are commonly purchased? Thanks.

Thank you! Yes, they do still come in an unfinished wooden tone, but my thought on that is they probably would start with the black mildew right quick with all the misting. The brand name is "Tinker Toys" (it really is; I don't know who makes 'em, but they've been around since I was a kid *cough* I'm a dinosaur *cough*). I got mine at "Toys 'R Us", one large set did all three of my cages. It took a lot of thought to use every single piece; I had more fun putting my mind on 'coast' while constructing these than I had in a long time, lol. The new type of sets are plastic like mine. I chose plastic because they won't warp with all the moisture and they won't grow mildew. You do have to sand them for grip before putting them together; I sanded the horizontal pieces lengthwise and the vertical or near vertical pieces are sanded round and round the shaft so they always have good grip even though its plastic. The colors do grow on you!

 

[Chameleon Company]

Thanks Yvonne. When I was a kid (3 coughs) they were all wood, even the colored ones, and when you chewed on them, your mouth changed color. Plastic is certainly more functional. Good luck with all.