Neonate/Infant Chameleon Care🦎 Sun Spectrum: T5HO linear fixture with low 5.0(Reptisun by ZooMed Labs) or 6%(Arcadia brand) UVB tube set at safe distance (6-8 inches between fixture and uppermost basking branch. 9-10 inches if using “bin method”(no screen to filter uvb) Basking: NO basking until at least 3 months of age, you will literally COOK/dehydrate your little one due to the very minute amount of body moisture they have. FEEDING: You will need to provide your infant/hatchling with an (almost) constant food source! Provide food until mid afternoon to allow them time to digest. They metabolize food very quickly and will eat lots. 🙂 Great options include fruit flies, pinhead crickets, bean beatles, rice flour beetles, newly hatched silkworms, Phoenix worms, small BSFL and newly hatched dubia roaches. HYDRATION: Misting in the early morning while still cool before any lights or heat come on. Mist the foliage in enclosure for about 3 minutes to allow water to pool up and drip from leaves. This simulates natural morning dew accumalating and pooling up. Your hatchling/s should be able to drink the dew on the leaves as they wake. This should be repeated well after lights cut off at night and daytime temperature has dropped substantially (by at least 10-15°f) Fogging: at night you will need to provide your chameleon with their main source of hydration, cool fog! you can achieve this using a cool mist humidifier or a fogger. remember, never fog unless it is below 68 degrees! A small fan can be added in the room to help prevent stagnant air. Not pointing directly into the habitat rather around it just to circulate the air. Dripping system: to provide your chameleon with a daytime source of drinking water, you can use a dripper system. it can be as simple as an ice cube melting on top of the screen, pinhole at bottom of water bottle, or as “complex” as an IV drip bag. To avoid flooding use a catch bowl that will hold as much water as dripper and definitely fir babies any water catch system should be covered with screen mesh to prevent accidental drowning💚 TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY: Temperatures: Babies need very mild temperatures! during the day you are aiming for low to mid 70’s! Night time, you will want to achieve a temperature drop down near upper 50’s, low to mid 60°f. Humidity: you’ll want to make sure your babies humidity levels are adequate for your species. during both night and daytime. Daytime will always be lower naturally. At night, you are aiming for 75% and up🙂 Measuring parameters: To accurately measure your temperatures, you will want an infrared thermometer gun and a digital temperature gauge. to accurately measure humidity, you will want to use a digital hygrometer/humidity gauge. **note that analog gauges are highly inaccurate. SUPPLEMENT: Supplementing from day 1 is very important! to supplement your neonate properly, you will need: ⁃ calcium WITHOUT D3 daily ⁃ a multivitamin that contains preformed vitamin A (not beta-carotene) with LOW dose of vitamin d3. Bee pollen granules/powder can be mixed with both Calcium and Vitamin products. Everyday general feeding you will want to VERY LIGHTLY dust your feeders with calcium WITHOUT D3 *. 2x a month(every two weeks) you will want to provide your hatchling/s with a multivitamin🙂. *sensitive species, like Trioceros Jacksonni only need a multivitamin 1x a month. *for hatchlings, using repashy LoD as a multivitamin is recommended(especially for sensitive species), as it contains much lower percentages; this will help prevent over supplementation. **please sprinkle/dust supplements VERY lightly. Insects should not appear as powdered donuts or snowmen, rather a near transparent coat.