Chemeleon enlcosure corecct?

[bamf64]

So im kinda interested in getting a chameleon maybe..and i was wondering if all i needed was:

A 40 or 60 gallon reptarium and soft tray
5.0 UVB bulb
Some kind of basking bulb probably like 75 watts.
A night bulb
a bunch of plants and vines to climb on
a water bowl
and can i feed a staple diet of mealworms? i was wondering if that was possible.

this was all thought up in my head just wanting to know what im missing lol

thanks

[SS4Luck]

For basking bulbs all you need is a 40-60 watt house bulb depending on where you live. A night bulb, regardless of color, has been shown to create stress with chams.

The water bowl is a HUGE no no. Chams cant swim at all, like 0. You need to get/make a dripper that drips onto the top leaves and falls through the rest of your enclosure. Chams only see moving water so a water bowl is just bad. They also need to be misted 2-4 times a day. You also need to get a good thermometer/hygrometer to measure basking spot temps and cage humidity.

here is my setup to give you an idea

I have extra dowels instead of multiple vines. Dowels also give them a better basking spot


Here are my lights and my dripper, its a blue party cup with a hole poked in it

[ballin]

Mealworms are high in chitin and fat and are not nutrisous. Feed a staple of crickets, silkworms, hornworms and butterworms.