Which to get? Veiled or Jackson

[Kingsnakechris]

Originally Posted by UwabamiReptiles

Yea that sounds good to me. I don't want to say clutter the cage, but I'd imagine getting pretty close wouldn't hurt. I just have vivid memories of my guys being stressed over the tiniest things. The plants(preferably live or a mix of live and fake) branches and whatnot will be good. A misting system will make life a lot easier. Too, if you're building your own cage, you could try to think of an easy way to clean the bottom of the cage. I remember always having to take everything out to do a substrate change(I used newspaper). I had big live plants in pots that sat on the bottom of the cage so I would have to remove them every cleaning which meant moving the cham every cleaning.

Maybe coming up with something to alleviate that situation would be easier for you in the long run. Just off the top of my head I'm thinking of a raised floor(2inches or so) and a pan in the bottom so you would just have to pull it out, clean it, and replace it. Like maybe hardware cloth on the bottom where the actual plant pots would sit on. Then all the soiled stuff would just fall through the hardware cloth to the pan. Kind of like a bird cage is set up.

Disclaimer: This is just something that popped into my head while typing this and remembering keeping chams myself. Maybe it will give you an idea for something else. Just try to think of every situation you can have and build a cage to make life easier for you and the chameleon(good choice with the jacksons too, those horns are BA).

Lol one of the first thoughts that popped into my head was cleaning techniques, I was DEF. Leaning towards the bird cage/bottom pan set up, that just seems to be the easiest way to go about it. Raised floor and a total cage clean out every now an again.