How To Care For A Female Chameleon. The habitat must have plenty of greenery and a lot of sticks and twigs to climb on. This chameleon does not like being handled at all so if you do decide to care for one of these chameleons plan to enjoy it through observation only.
One Chameleon per Cage. When a female is looking to lay eggs she will wonder around the bottom of the aquarium and try to get out. By following the usual good husbandry practices and providing an appropriate private place to lay owning a female should.
Females can make the best pet chameleons but the prospect of egg-laying usually scares new keepers away from owning a female at all.
Among many species the female chameleon will eat a more complex diet and will need care specific to egg-laying. Chameleons do not respond to heating rocks as other reptiles do. Chameleons need exposure to UVA and UVB rays. Veiled chameleons should have a ceramic reflector dome with a UVA bulb placed six inches above the highest basking perch.