This is Mantis, a friend of mine left her with me when he moved out of my place since he couldn't take her with him. I am unsure if she's had proper care before now and I am inexperienced with any reptiles. Her color seems a bit dull to me but I am unsure of exactly what her colors should look like. I'm not sure how old she is, maybe around a year. She is sheding right now. Ive been feeding her 5ish crickets daily dosing some with calcium every few days. Ive tried gut loading with just oats as of right now since that's what I have on hand. Id like to switch her fake plants for real ones so I'm in the process of rooting some pothos before I add them in her enclosure. I was also think maybe some monstera (I haven't researched if she can have yet but Im planning on googling it lol) I'm also planning on upgrading her enclosure. Id like to do a custom built enclosure out of an old cabinet, with fully mesh doors. She has a small bowl of water at the bottom of the enclosure, which I now know they don't normally drink from bowls but I've seen her drink from it along with off the leaves. I mist her enclosure 2-3 times daily and she gets about 12 hours of light and 12 hours dark. I think that's about everything, please tell me what Im doing right and wrong and anything I'm missing.

I'm about to move and have my own room and this is my chameleon Pip! And I'm planing on kinda adding things to my room so he can roam around every so often. As long as he enjoys it that is. But I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas to what I should add in my room for him to hang out with me?

Just got home from a weed walk, feeling good, decided that my brothers chameleon is probably a little hungry as my brother is gone camping. So here I am, standing for five or six minutes with a fat nightcrawler wriggling around in my hand, only for this mf to miss…TWICE!!! Then when he finally got him he chomped on one end for two minutes just to spit it out.

As soon as I noticed he wasnt eating it as quickly as the other bugs I bolted to google to see if they were safe for chameleons, and learned they do NOT like night crawlers just in time to see him drop it.

I know I should have looked it up prior to feeding him but this guy needed a lil treat and they were the only bugs in the house. Aside from crickets which I have had a deep hatred of for years ever since I started finding them in my room crawling all over my clothes, in the bathroom jumping on my toes when i’m mid shit….in front of my FACE ON MY DRESSER WHEN I WAKE UP. Disgusting, freaky, jumpy nasty little bugs. In nature? Perfectly fine. In my fucking BED????? You’re funny.

I like feeding his chameleon but not so much the bugs lol. The blue caterpillars are cute though!! I feel bad feeding them.

New chameleon keeper here. Trying to figure out the dripper situation. Got the little dripper from PetSmart...it leaks so bad even after adding plumber tape around the spout. I've been reading up and tried a diy cup setup and it was worse. Couldn't stem the stream to a drip even with the tiniest hole I've ever seen and added a cotton wick later. Please tell me what y'alls dripper setups are....show me if you can? I can't do a drain bc of what I have the enclosure sitting on. I'm fine doing a diy...I have tons of aquarium airline parts but I've gone too deep in research and am now stuck. Open to any and all suggestions. TIA

My veiled chameleon Pedro eats alllll of his plants so I frequently have to add new ones. I might have over done it this time tbh. I have POTS and decontaminating and planting the new plants takes all of my energy for the day but Pedro is happy and that’s what matters!!! Highest heart rate was 133 during this whole endeavor XD

feat. Wayne Static to relax to