Selecting a Chameleon Cage Size | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Chameleons, like every animal, are constantly regulating their temperature and wanting different levels of exposure and security. That is the whole concept of gradients which remains one of the most important foundational concepts in chameleon keeping. We need to not only provide them the basking temperature, but different levels of heat which they choose to be in whenever they want. And when they want it a little cooler well they need to be able to find that as well. So you now have a hot spot (at a level appropriate for your species of course) and a cool spot (ambient temperature) and the branch network to effectively be at any temperature inbetween. So this complicates things.

Our heat sources, usually an incandescent bulb, dissipate quickly as they travel away from the heat source. What this means is that making sure a little carpet chameleon can fit their body into a certain point along the heat gr...