Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.
The numbers
Temperature
The cool side, 18–27°C, dropping to 10–21°C at night. This sheet states the cool side only. It gives no warm side or basking figure, so the hot end is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet statescool 18-27 °C / night 10-21 °C
Humidity
The sheet stateshumidity levels to alternate from 20% to 80% through the day and night
UVB
The sheet statesfull-spectrum UVB lighting
Identity
Enclosure and conditions
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.
The sheet statesmoths, butterflies, crickets, hissing cockroaches, waxworms, silkworms, butterworms, giant mealworms, dubia roaches; about 1 or 2 large prey items once or twice daily or every other day
Common questions
How big does it get?
The biggest mainland African chameleon, up to about 60 cm with the tail and heavy with it. It needs a very large cage, not a tank.
Is it hard to keep?
Yes. It is big and sensitive, and most imports are wild caught and arrive in poor shape, so buy captive bred if you can find it.
Does it bite?
It gapes and hisses first, and a big one can give a real pinch, but it is not dangerous. Give it space rather than handling it.
What does it eat?
Large insects in quantity. A big one eats a lot, so factor the feeder bill into your budget.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.
Sources
Others in this group
What this sheet states
This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.