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A screen cage also has the advantage that there is a wide margin of error. Since you are really heating and humidifying the entire room, a basking lamp needs only be calibrated to the proper temperature at the basking spot. You really don’t have to worry about anything outside the immediate cone of heat until you succeed in heating up the entire room and are now affecting the ambient conditions. li>Mainland UK - next day courier with pre-1pm or pre-6pm delivery services (excludes some Scottish postal codes). The essentially 100% ventilation of screen cages allows the inside of the cage to match the outside ambient temperature and humidity. If your environment matches closely with your chameleon’s natural environment then a screen cage is a good choice.
ZooMed has created the “ Chameleon Kit” which is the industry’s most popular first cage. It is unfortunate as it is not adequate as a cage set-up. It is popular because it is cheap, not because it is good for chameleons. The UVB bulb is too weak to reach more than an inch or so and there is no way to mount either the included vine or one spring of fake plant. The carpet included is not appropriate for chameleon husbandry as it only provides a nice wet foundation for poop and escaped feeder insects to mingle in a moist environment. The official statement from ZooMed customer service as to the cage’s inadequacy is that the cage is not meant for long term use, but only to get the chameleon home. You may read it here: ZooMed Customer Service Response Regarding The Chameleon Kit.
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the substrate tray that comes with it is useful depending on your cage and drainage setup. it does come with both the flat plastic square bottom as well as the 2" deep tray that is available for other reptibreeze cages. i personally am not going to use the tray and instead just use the flat plastic square with holes drilled into it for proper drainage as i am using a dragonstrand drainage tray underneath the reptibreeze cage. I may find a use for the tray at some time but for now i am not even using it. li>Mainland UK - next day courier with pre-12pm or pre-4pm delivery services (excluding some Scottish postal codes). First, i noticed that the clear acrylic door is cool in the fact that you can see much clearer, but it also is much heavier than a door with just screen on it which results in the door needing assistance to close. what i mean is that when you try to close the door you need to lift up on it considerably just to get it to close int he proper position so that you can latch it shut. this is a pain because it disturbs the whole cage whenever opening or closing the door since you have to lift up so much to get it closed. Also, when you have light fixtures on top it seems to add to the problem by adding more weight. When i removed the light fixtures i dont seem to have to lift the cage door up as much to get it to close. I currently am using both the medium and XL reptibreeze LED deluxe models. There are some things i like and others i do not like. Flip-up Service Door. A common chameleon cage feature for the last couple decades is a short flip up panel at the bottom front. This “service door” allows us to clean the floor of the cage with the minimum disruption to the occupant. This is not a simple feature to implement as it reduces the structural integrity of the entire cage. Each manufacturer must decide how they will (or won’t) compensate for this. Note that some cage designs deal with this situation by not including a service door (Zilla takes the lead here). This feature is not as useful if you have potted plants on the floor and the floor panel wouldn’t be moved unless the plants were removed anyways. But if you intend to use Dragon Ledges or any other method to mount your plants to the sides and keep the floor clear, the Service door becomes a feature with high value.
second, the LED's have their own power cord that plugs into the top right rear corner of the cage. the top right front corner is where the touch sensitive power or cycle button to change the LED's from white, red, and white + red. i have noticed that the touch sensitive button is rather sensitive and has a tendency to turn itself on or off or cycle thru the lights even if i just try to open or close the clear panel door. see above for a contributing reason why this happens. The LED's are bright and do light up the cage nicely. However, i am using the LED/UVB hood with this cage and i have determined that with both the LED/UVB hood and the cage LED's that it is just too much light and unnecessary for the medium size cage. so now i just use the fixture on top for light source. seems like kind of a waste but when both LED's light banks are on, it is crazy bright and turns his cage into a light house. li>Royal Mail 24 - 1st class service that aims to deliver within 1 day of dispatch (not guaranteed).Screen cages are usually made from aluminum window screening or some type of rolled or extruded aluminum. Most have been made from the same type of screen panels that go on house windows. Though these are seen to be flimsy – and, as individual pieces they are – when screwed together into a six sided box (a cage shape) they provide a stable, but lightweight structure. This has given us chameleon keepers a huge advantage where we can have the large cages our chameleons need without the usually expected weight. Although a common compliant is that the cages are “flimsy”, the fact is that there is no need for strong material. There is no use case that requires the cage to support great weight. Other more substantial framing can be used, but the benefits of doing so do not start to outweigh the cost and weight until the cage gets to be over 4′ in one dimension. After that there are 1″x 1″ aluminum extrusions with many premade connectors which can be used. The Dragon Strand Chameleon Caging Company was founded by Bill Strand, who is also the founder of this Chameleon Academy and host of the Chameleon Academy Podcast! The company was created to produce products whose main purpose is to solve the problems we chameleon keepers and breeders have. li>Some heavy items may need to be moved from your selected delivery service to a palletised delivery service with a delivery time of 1-2 working days. Size: Pictures do not do a good job of communicating the size of a screen cage so you’ll have to go in with an idea of the numbers you are looking for. Consider an adult cage to be in the range of 24″W x 24″D x 48″H or 36″W x 18″D x 36″H. You cannot heat a screen cage. If your ambient temperature is too cold then you need to look into solid side caging. What we can do is provide a heating boost through a basking light. And this works well for many species. If you home is in the mid 70s F, which is very comfortable for humans, then your ambient conditions are perfect for the most common chameleon species. All they would need is a heat boost in the morning that consists of turning on an appropriately strong heat lamp. After a couple of hours the chameleon will be done basking and will find those comfortable mid 70s areas to hang out in. In a screen cage the heat will be there until the second you shut it off so you need to use screen cages in a location where you do not need to modify the environment beyond an initial sunning in the morning.
Rust proof hinges– The marketing behind these cages all like to say they are aluminum screen and rust proof! Except that there are many more things that go on these cages and sometimes aluminum or stainless steel is not a cheap option. Screws, door handles, and especially hinge pins, tend to rust on these “rust proof” cages. A simple magnet will show you where the rusting parts are. Screws and door handles can be replaced, but door hinges are usually riveted on one side. A hinge pin rusting out cannot be easily replaced. Most people do only indoor keeping so this is a consideration that must be seriously evaluated by keepers planning on including outdoor keeping in their husbandry.Of course, the advantage is also a disadvantage. You can get away with leaving the heat lamp on a little longer without affecting the temperature at the other end of the cage, but likewise, if you need the ambient conditions warmer or more humid you will have a challenge. maybe i exaggerated a bit on the lighthouse effect, but i still think in person it is brighter then necessary. Honestly, i don't think i can reccomend the LED reptibreeze cages as you can get much better light fixtures to cover your lighting needs. since LED's do not provide heat, they are just for aesthetic purposes to create additional light. They may help with plant growth as well but other light fixtures can do this too, a la LYR.
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