male veiled with female?

Pet with a tail · 03-15-04, 09:29 PM

hey everyone i was reading on putting a female with a male to breed but it said about if they are not in the same cage for breeding , so does that mean it is okay to put them in the same enclosure? I am wanting to purchase a female veiled to put in with my male but to live not really to breed unless that ends up happening its will be cool, but is it okay to have a male and female veiled in the same enclosure? it is a very very big enclosure i built it for just that purpose..... please respond?

Collide · 03-15-04, 09:36 PM

Hey its not good to house male and a female to geather basically u put the female in the males they do there buisness and remove the female. If they stay togeather the male will completly dominate the female, mate with her constantly they would most likely fight and the female would end up extremly stressed and die a slow death. So they MUST be housed seperatly. Depending on how big u made your enclosure you could possible devid two sides to create two enclosures.

xdiversichicx · 03-15-04, 09:36 PM

speaking from my expierence, and from what everyone told me here when i got my male and female veilds. its ok to house them together for a short amount of time while they are little if it cant be avoided, but your more than likely gonna have to split them up. i kept mine together while i was building a separate cage, and my female beat the crap out of the male every time he got near her. they were only three weeks old then.
so id say no, they will more than likely need to be separated. a friend of mine has kept two females together before, but has also never been able to keep a male and female together.

kidchameleon · 03-15-04, 09:52 PM

yeah, you really shouldnt keep a male and female together. and if you think they MIGHT mate, you're wrong. they definately will, and like collide said it would probably be more than once, and the female could get seriously injured and/or stressed.

Pet with a tail · 03-15-04, 10:12 PM

okay well in that case i will just build a seperate cage for a femlae then when it is set-up i will buy a female, im not ready for breeding yet but when i am how old can the female be and does it matter if the male is older? thank you

Collide · 03-15-04, 10:15 PM

well the female should be about a year old she should be finnished growing and a adult some females will start laying eggs young if yours does id recomend wating till she is grown. eggs take alot out of a female and ur gonna want her to be nice and strong b4 u breed. Now the males... they can breed earlier but not much mabey 9 months mabey but id still recomend a year. Hope that helps.

Pet with a tail · 03-15-04, 10:29 PM

thanks, i was discussing with my boyfriend he doesnt want to just put the enclosure in half so we are probably going to build a new one.... and yeah that does help thank you.....

Pet with a tail · 03-15-04, 10:32 PM

then again do you know of any good sites that will help me on the caging and the putting together of two chameleons??? it would really help thanks

Collide · 03-15-04, 11:16 PM

ummm here are some good sites take a look through them they are the best info sites i have found

www.adcham.com
www.chameleonjournals.com
www.chamownersweb.com

meow_mix450 · 03-16-04, 01:12 PM

ugh, you guys should read some other posts on this fourm, collide keeps giving them and no one realize's them but it looks like your new here, but ya if you want to chameleons in one cage, is to have female with female, even tehn they might start to fight, so i would just put them in another cage

Good luck

Meow

choriona · 03-17-04, 11:32 AM

The nature of this animal is to be solitary. Why else would they be so very territorial!!! Why put your pet under life-long stress just because you think it would be kinda neat? Stress = health problems = short life span or expensive trips to the vet. Are you also prepared to deal with that?
Even if two females are together, you can have a more dominant one. And I have noticed that its the females that are more territorial, they always attack the male, not the other way around.

So no, I do not suggest housing them together. If you really must, I believe you could do it in a shed or in a spare bedroom. But not in a confined cage. And I do not suggest it until you have worked with chameleons for at least a couple of years. That way you can be familiar with interpreting their behaviours.

meow_mix450 · 03-17-04, 11:34 PM

Well ya, but if its a nice big cage, i dont see a problem with 2 females, but ive heard of storys that 2 females did live happily together with no problems, but thats rare. Its just some suggestion, but there will be competion for food etc so it would be best to seperate all chams

Meow