Baby Veiled Chameleon Care

Half fill the aquarium with safe plants at different heights.

Baby veiled chameleon care.

Chameleons should never be kept in a glass terrarium or aquarium. Veiled chameleon normal behavior. In general crickets should be as long as your chameleon s head is wide. Veiled chameleons are territorial and aggressive to other chameleons so they.

It s pretty general but secret is make a process and plan that works for you not everywhere is the same. Veiled chameleons eat a variety of live insects including crickets mealworms and waxworms. They need the ventilation. In addition you should always keep the pregnant veiled chameleon s terrarium neat in order to prevent the invasion of ecto parasites and possible infection.

Babies are born a bright pale green and should be placed in a 10 gallon nursery a day after birth. Veiled chameleons can be fed a staple diet of crickets. Chameleons regularly shed. Throughout the day the basking spot temperature should vary from 90 to 95 fahrenheit degrees.

Feed baby veiled chameleons a once or twice a day and adults every other day. It is important for baby chameleons to get all the required nutrients so they can grow and develop rightly. Also feed your veiled chameleon some collard greens. Dust the insects with a vitamin and calcium supplement mixture once or twice a week.

Use a hood with a fluorescent bulb at one end of the nursery to provide uvb and maintain a temperature between 70 83 f. Foliage is a must for a veiled chameleon enclosure. It can take several minutes and most of us either use misting systems or spray bottles and run drippers to saturate the cages down. How to care for pet veiled chameleons veiled chameleon behavior and temperament.

Place chameleon in a secure. Baby and juvenile veiled chameleons should be fed once or twice a day and have almost constant access to food. As they get older you can feed slightly less often with adults being fed every other day. You should also pay attention to the temperature in the cage or you will have trouble getting chameleon to eat.

In short letting a pregnant veiled chameleon experience a stress free chained and series of events is non negotiable. I just don t want someone watching this video that is just starting out and think you can squirt a bottle of water into the cage a few times and your chameleon has enough water for the day.