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Okay guys, I really just need some good opinions. There’s a chameleon at the store I work at — she’s my best buddy. It’s a regular veiled chameleon, maybe 8 months old. Often when the tank gets too warm or when she starts frantically digging at the front of the glass, I’ll offer my hand to her. Whether she takes it or not is completely up to her (though she usually will).

I know reptiles don’t feel love or affection as we do and she likely recognizes that I both feed and won’t hurt her. She’s never puffed or hissed at me and she’s always light green with darker green stripes when she climbs around me. She loves hanging out on my head — likely because it’s the highest part of my body.

Be honest, should I set up a tank and bring her home? Or let someone else build trust with her and take her home? Is she going to hate me as she gets older — I’ve heard horror stories of that happening with veiled chameleons as they grow older because they’re more keen to isolation.

Again, I know chameleons are very sensitive, but idk if it would be the right or wrong choice to take her home with me.

(I might have also gendered her wrong, we haven’t had many male chameleons so I apologize if I did.)

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Just popping in for a quick hi from Skateboard Pea 🫛

My boyfriend and I really want to get this chameleon and it is a juvenile and approx 1 year old. He is literally like 3 inches maximum and we are very much aware of not only the attentiveness you need to own one but also all of the aspects of the enclosure. Due to the size of him should we go all out and get the enclosure now that he will have for the rest of his life or should we start off with a small enclosure until he grows to a size where he appears to need a bigger enclosure? We are worried about him finding his food and intaking the water droplets in such a seemingly large habitat. (here is a video of him, we have not yet adopted him so this is the enclosure that he is being held in)

for my year old panther, the dirtiness on the bottom is diatomaceous earth because there was fungus gnats :(

okay hi a lot of people are gonna be upset because he bought it without doing research but my brother bought a veiled chameleon from petsmart on sunday and did no reasearch for it i’ve been trying to help and do as much as possible because he hasn’t done any still but i think she’s either around or under the 3 month mark , we put a mister for humidity so that and the temperature are always fine or i adjust if needed but i have questions and concerns..
i know they’re very delicate and so i’ve been trying to take every precautionary that i can but we’ve tried giving her crickets and im not sure she’s eaten any and we take them out after a while since they do bite and i need to figure out a way to get her to eat , i’ve been letting her get adjusted in the tank because i know it can be stressful and a reason why she not eating but any tips on that would be great
and then for basking i saw her earlier trying to move around to like the warmest area and i don’t think that our lamps are providing really and meaningful warmth to her so if you guys could give me lamps that would actually provide that warmth without overheating her or the tank that would be great
she’s also shedding and i saw she needs a lot of leaves to help get the shedding off we already planned on getting more live plants because the petsmart selection of fake plants and real ones weren’t great but he definitely needs more in his enclosure
again i know they need research which is why im trying , he bought out of impulse but were trying
(for whatever reason i can’t put pictures)

Every morning when I feed Bayou, he climbs down onto one of his enclosures handles and waits for me to finish dusting his crickets. Once he’s done eating, he climbs back up and goes about his business.

I wanted to replace these handles (they’re from an extra set for my grill) because of how long they are. People will walk past the enclosure and hit their hips on it or their clothes will get caught. But now I don’t think I can because he claimed them as a perch lol.

I have a panther chameleon and I noticed a little black hole near the lip that wasn’t there the other day. Does this look like an infection or injury?
Context: I live in SW Florida, the enclosure has four mesh sides with trees and plants.

Just my boy coming out to say hello! Love his colors when he's content and excited to see me 🥰🥰

Just wanting to see if my new 3-4 month old (unsure of exact age) looks ok? We have had her for less than a week.

She's eating about 15 crickets a day, dusted with calcium without D3. She has a reptibreeze T5 UVB 5.0 22inch light. 50 watt heating lamp, basking area is 86. Daytime temps are 73, drops at 50/53 at night. Humidity during the day is 65 (a bit high, I'm trying to lower during the day. We live in a more humid area) at night time the humidity is around 90.

All her siblings were massive compared to her when I purchased her. I thought she was from a later batch they got, but when I asked the employee said she was the same age as the rest. She's super tiny. The last photo is of her in the pet store before coming home. I also noticed she isn't as vibrant and as was there. I'm just anxious, and really want whats best for this little gal!

This is my first chameleon and I’m having trouble figuring out if she’s ready to lay eggs. I had put a lay bin in for her the last 2 weeks and she never even acknowledged it. I had to take it since it became full with water and need to go out to get new sand. Any help here is appreciated.

Speaking of the lay bin, how do you manage to keep water out of it? I tried to drill holes at the bottom to let it drain, but that didn’t work either.

this is werner, he is a veiled chameleon. i didn't want a chameleon, but because i own reptiles i am the one people come to when they have a reptile in need. he is my son now and he is very handsome. ive read a bit here and researched elsewhere but i would appreciate some advice and to be told if im doing anything wrong.

when he first came to me a month ago he was malnourished, weak, and impacted with coco fiber. i set him up in a ten gallon hospital tank and stuffed him full of dubias while i did my research and hoped for the best. it was bleak, but he survived.

when he showed me he was strong enough and ready to move out of the hospital tank i had set up for him, i got him into a v3 2x2x4 enclosure from reptile habitats and filled it with all the branches and bird perches he could climb. he has a 75w heat lamp with a hot spot of 85°, 33% humidity and an ambient temperature of 80°, 49% humidity in the middle of the enclosure at the time of writing. he has an arcadia 7% uvb, 8w, 12.5" which i soon intend to upgrade to an arcadia 6% uvb, 24w, 24" when i have the means to do so. i offer a water dish and manually spray the leaves multiple times a day, and mist in the morning and at night. he spends most of his waking hours climbing about and basking, and settles in toward the middle of the enclosure before falling asleep at night. he usually eats 8-12 dubia roaches per day, though sometimes he'll refuse food for a day. today i picked up some wax worms and he scarfed down 15 of them, which made me so proud of my little man.

i have two questions to start. first, how old could he be ? secondly, does he look well ? he looks okay to me and has improved significantly from the weak little thing he was last month, but id really appreciate hearing it from people more experienced than me.

feel free to ask me any questions and thank you in advance.

I have put a lot of time, love and passion into creating this enclosure for my chameleon, Dracarys. Like many of us here, I had to learn a lot when I first got him. I went through 2 previous enclosures prior to this. It’s a Catio converted into this little masterpiece!

I got the Catio brand new from Amazon for just over $100. All plants and vines on the inside are live or bamboo sticks. I only use fake plants on the outside to hide ugly equipment and to give Dracarys more privacy.

I love getting feedback and kind criticism but please be kind. This is something I am very proud of and love helping others get their enclosures set up, so any questions are also welcome.

What do y’all think?

Edit: I said Costco and not Amazon lol I got the Catio from Amazon.