watering your cham?

choriona · 10-07-03, 09:39 AM

I was just wondering how everyone goes about making sure their cham is drinking enough. Personally, I have water fountains in each of my cages and I've hardly observed the use of them, but I know they must.
Also, I have a few of those sport water bottles that you have to squeeze to get water out - then I hold onto the cham with thier heads facing the sky and let the drips run down their noses and lips. Usually they start drinking in no time. My gravid females especially enjoy this.
My panther gets a drip container - which makes me angry because sometimes it dosen't drip. (Any suggestions? Its a zip-loc container with a pin-prick in the bottom side edge and i keep the lid off.)
I have also heard of people using ice cubes on the top of the cage that melt and drip into the enclosure.
Or do some people just rely on spraying/misting?

Trace · 10-07-03, 09:54 AM

I do everything you've mentioned.

Primarily I mist their cages 2 or 3 times daily for 5 minutes or so each time. I use the empty sour cream container with pinhole trick too, particularly for the guys that like to drink constantly. (Panthers). Like yours, I have mine syringe trained, and every single one of them gets taken out daily and has chance to drink that way as well.

I have one or two chameleons that just get impatient with me and go and get the water themselves! (Excuse the crappy pic)

Cheers!

Trace

choriona · 10-07-03, 10:06 AM

oh, thats cute!
My 1/2 blind male drinks out of a bowl too. I didn't believe it when his previous owner told me that, but sure enough I saw him do it.

drewlowe · 10-07-03, 10:17 AM

Currently i'm misting 3 times a day. When i take him out he will lick off the squirt bottle. I've only had him for a week though. I have a little hamster bottle in his cage to see if that will get his attention. Out of the cage he has used it. I haven't seen him use it in the cage though. I'm also thinking about using the drip method Trace mentioned above.

meow_mix450 · 10-07-03, 02:52 PM

i spray every morining and after noon for 5 mins, and when ever i walk in to the room, i have a water bottle, and theres a pinhole so water just runs like a fountain, the water drips onto the plant's leaves then onto the soil. weird how it works, but my panther likes to drink of the leaves, im trying to find a dripping system(cause the water drips way to fast, i heard they sell drippers that can control how fast it drips but i cant find it...

Meow

Trace · 10-07-03, 05:13 PM

Meow...

Zoomed sells something called either the "Big Dripper" or the "Little Dripper", and I think you can set these to drip at different rates. They run about $10-15CAD and you'll find them in most pet stores that sells herps. I have heard conflicting reports though on good they are. Some people swear by them and some people think they are crap. I personally haven't tried them.

http://www.zoomed.com/html/drippers.html

Zoomed is also selling mini automatic misters now, and again, I haven't tried them as the price tag seems a little high. Approx $80CAD. When I get some spare cash, I'm going to invest in one of the bigger automatic misting systems that will do every cage at once, considering I have multiple chameleons. This singular portable system would be helpful for a person who's only got one or two chameleons. I haven't been to some of the bigger box pet stores (PetSmart et al) in just ages, but I think there are no-name versions of this automatic system, for less money.

http://www.zoomed.com/html/habbamist.html

And for everyone else... I should mention that winter is coming, *shudders* and I'll have to dig out my humidifiers and foggers for the posse here. For the next few months those will be on almost daily here, and those are another good way of providing a bit more water in cages.

Cheers!

Trace

meow_mix450 · 10-07-03, 05:26 PM

O wow thats great, (the mister), it would save me so much time, but the cost of it will kill me lol

this is a mister that petsmart is selling, is this any good???(any opinon would be great)
http://www.petsmart.com/products/product_33088.shtml

I think im gonna try out te little dripper, my little bottle isnt working for me...i chcecked at my pet stores but they dont seem to have it.....

Meow

Trace · 10-07-03, 07:36 PM

Hey Meow!

I checked out that link, and that is the cheaper product I was thinking of. Although I thought they were automatic and you could set it on a timer to mist a different intervals over the day. Ah well. My mister is like the the one in your link, but mine is a huge 4 gallon monstrosity, but that's useful for me for all of my animals. Like BetsyJean mentioned in another thread here, you can get smaller pump sprayers (1L) at Home Despot for about $10. Definately worth the investment.

Cheers!

Trace

dank7oo · 10-07-03, 07:52 PM

meow -
i have that EXACT mister, and it work GREAT .. the only problem was that i bought it, and cup feed my dwarfs ... water in cup .. not cool .. especially with the calcium, gooyness .. you get it
i think i may use it on max, but the hand mister works fine for me .. i use no weight, so at least it is some form a excersize - LOL

Jason

Wuntu Menny · 10-07-03, 08:03 PM

I Mist twice a day and provide drip pails for all. Total price, about $35 including the industrial grade sparayer. I don't think I've ever had a dehydrated cham.

WM

Collide · 10-08-03, 12:55 AM

I have a pump sprayer fairly large it works well for me, my chams get sprayed daily fairly lightly in the morning and in the evening, my veilds hardly ever drink, the only time i ever see my female veiled drink is after laying then she drinks right form the end of the sprayer quite funny acually. My panthers drink all the time, as well as the pigmy girl (I also have a small sprayer that i give sprayes when ever i walk buy). the only cham I ever had a hydration issue with was a female panther who got eggbound so her eyes got sunkin I showered as well as siringed her but It was the egges nothin i could do could help. bla bla bla ok ill stop now lol.

Oh and dripper dont seem to work for me I have 3 of them which i used for months with no sucess but hey im not puttin them down mabey ill get a cham who likes them one day lol

meow_mix450 · 10-08-03, 05:58 PM

hey
Collide, where did youget the dripper???? i went to pjs at stc, i couldnt find any, where did u get urs???

Meow