Economically I think getting your hands on a bunch of brown anoles will be best for this purpose. They breed easily too. 3 males and 10 females can probably be kept in something manageable in size and the young ones produced would be a great size for panthers.
It's well known that importers in the past have passed off females of one locale as another for profit. The Nosy Faly story is also pretty well documented and probably has a lot of truth to it. Calling that a shame is a major understatement. The entire locale has been compromised by this whether...
In the perfect world we wouldn't interfere at all just like you're saying. But that's not the world we live in unfortunately.
The fact is it's on us as a community to do our part to preserve the animals we claim to love.
A perfect example of why fluid definitions of species aren't best used for preserving animals. Anyone whose seen both knows mountain lions and Florida panthers are very different cats. Though now obviously much less different.
If spontaneous events like those happened as often as it's argued they are, speciation and locale development wouldn't be a thing to begin with. Again locales aren't formed where there are no major boundaries. By definition that's how they develop. One can't picture a forest where at some...
The party that disagrees with locale crossing doesn't agree that it's the same as dog's for a few reasons. Instead of dogs think of wolves. What if all we had were mutts of unknown percentage of most or all the continents wolf species? Its happened in a few places in North America that we...
That really just comes down to reputable importers. Believe it or not locales of panthers and most other animals rarely hybridize. Not because they won't but because by nature, locales develop because of some boundary dividing them to begin with.
I know this better in clownfish and flasher...
The problem with crossing of locales in panthers...and really any animal locales, isn't what you're doing as a breeder. It's what is done with the animals that are produced AFTER they're sold.
There isn't anything ethically wrong with producing these animals and putting them in loving homes...
I've been buying them just to grow into moths because my guys like the flying stuff better than the crawling stuff. What type of chameleon is it? I think an 8 month old veiled or panther could take the moths. Maybe not a small 8 month panther...
Anoles only lay one or 2 eggs at a time and not as often as I believe most day geckos do. I'm personally comfortable feeding wild anoles to my chameleons, or should I say, allowing my chameleons access to wild anoles. They can do what they want with them lol
I have to think reptile prey would...
I release anoles periodically on my patio free range where my Meller's are. Every few weeks I put a few out there and they usually disappear over several days but they can't be escaping. I went out of my way to make my patio escape proof for my day geckos and chameleons.
I really like my discoids. They're bigger than dubia and I find they reproduce quickly. I was able to start feeding from my colony after about 4-5 months.