Building up a Medium Atrium Chameleon Enclosure

chameleon cage with foam used in background
07Jul

Building up a Medium Atrium Chameleon Enclosure

By Blog, Caging

Our goal as chameleon keepers is to create as natural of an environment within our unnatural houses as possible for our chameleons. This includes live plants, branches, and naturalistic hydration. In this guide I describe one way to incorporate these elements into a beautiful cage set-up.

 

Medium Atrium Chameleon Cage Application Note

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Bill Strand has been involved in captive breeding of chameleons for almost four decades. He has bred reptiles and amphibians at the hobbyist level and at the large-scale commercial level. In 2002 he established the successful Chameleons! eZine (www.chameleonnews.com) with Ken Kalisch and Don Wells. He led the South Bay Chameleon Keepers group in Southern California and is the host of the Chameleon Breeder Podcast at www.chameleonbreeder.com.

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