"Pygmeleons"
Pygmy care is quite different from the other chameleons...They are kept in glass tanks as opposed to screen cages, subsrate is OK where it is not with the other chams, they don't generally require a heat source unless your temps are very,very cold...but otherwise they are a mist, feed, and clean occasionally wonderful chameleon to keep. Oh-and they are small! Very small with little tiny feet and skinny legs!
Simple way to create a habitiat....
Using a 10 gallon tank with a screen lid, I constructed my first Brev habitiat. The bottom layer you see is Hydroton(balls of the same material that those red clay flower pots are made of). I buy this at LLL reptile. Next there is a layer of common window screening, then a layer of activated aquarium charcoal, another layer of window screening, and then coconut fiber, The coconut fiber comes in a brick that you soak in water (Bed-A-Beast/Eco-Earth) and then break apart. I mix this with a bit of sand. In this picture you see a fake plant in the front, but I no longer use fake plastic plants in my Brev enclosures. Pothos is excellent here and will take over in a few months. The little chams love to climb the vines and hide under the big leaves. I also have some rocks, sticks, leaves, and frog pillow moss. Bake any rocks, sticks, or leaves in a 350 oven for 30 minutes to kill and creepy stuff! I live in Florida, and since my house temps are a constant 74 degrees, I use only a Zoomed Reptisun 2.0 linear flourescent tube in a $5.00 WalMart undercabinet fixture (lens removed) on top of the cage.
