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When I woke up this morning I was immediately worrying about Toby. I wondered, yet again, if this was the morning I'd find him dead. He's been declining for months, and I'm always worrying about him. I decided today's the day. I dug a little hole under a nice bush near his outdoor cage, or his...

I've had a dubia colony for over 5 years, its super well established and does a great job feeding my handful of pets. The colony is housed in a large topless rubbermaid container with a bunch of egg crate, and I use a hanging ceramic bulb/heater to keep them warm in the winter. I keep the colony...

Some of the eggs from my panther's recent clutch are yellow and developing what looks like fungus. As mentioned in another post, some of the eggs may have gotten wet from the mist system in the chameleon's cage. Should I remove these fungus eggs? Am I doing something wrong with the...

Hey folks! I've a female and a male panther. Male's over 4 years old, female's right about 2. I've had a really hard time detecting mood changes in the female so I don't normally know when she's about to lay or is receptive to breeding. I've made a few guesses about when to try breeding, but...

One of my younger panthers was stuck in a container of water for somewhere up to 14 hours. I found it floating, luckily still alive, this morning. It seems to not be too much the worse for wear now, but I'm still worried for the little booger. Is there anything I should look out for, health...

I'm going to San Diego for a few days, near North County, and may have some free time. Any cool local shops I should try to check out?

Are there any good LED bulbs that also provide UVB? I have been using mercury vapor bulbs for UVB, but I'm sick of them randomly burning out all the freakin time.

I bought one of the new LED reptibreeze cages with an acrylic door. It's a nice cage, but Toby is often fired up and puffed out at the big chameleon who now shares his cage and lives in the reflective door. Is there anything I can do to help him from seeing his reflection in the door, and...

Chameleon Info: Your Chameleon - Female amibilobe panther, about 7 months old, I bought her about a month ago at a reptile show Handling - Once or twice a week I take her out for a shower or visit to the outdoor cage with as little handling as possible. Feeding - 1 or 2 appropriate sized dubias...

I noticed last night and this morning that my boy Toby had a couple spots that looked like they wanted to shed, so I decided to check on him over lunch today. He really kicked that shed into high gear! Here's some pics pre and post shower.

Luckily he didn't actually drop the load ON me, but he did drop it while he was on my arm! I was checking up on him while he was in the shower, when he started to walk towards me. I stuck my arm out and he climbed aboard ... then immediately lifted his leg and wouldn't move off my arm till he...

I'm gonna rant a bit. By most any account I'm a fairly successful person. I've got a good job, fun friends, a fantastic and supportive family, I earned a college degree while I was in the army, I pay my taxes, and I'll flatter myself by saying I'm a pretty stand-up kind of guy. However, when...

I'm a bit tired of trying to balance fresh fruits and veggies for me AND my feeders. Plus, there are tons of good gutload ingredients that my bugs never get because I don't want to load my own gut with them :D I'm considering making a large batch of gutload that will last a while, plus include...

My male panther, Toby, used to have all sorts of crazy colors. Over the winter he seemed to lose everything but his blues and greens. Those colors are still vibrant and healthy looking, but I miss the reds and all the rest. You can see his previous colors in my profile pic, and here's a more...

My 1.5 year old male panther, Toby, just started eating from my hand. Up til now he never ate if I was even in sight so I'm learning a lot more about him. I've noticed that sometimes (probably less than 1/4 of the time) when he gets a big prey item, like an adult male roach, it will escape from...

I was walking through my kitchen, headed to bed, when I noticed this little booger hopping away from me in the most distressed of ways. I caught him and put him in a spare tupperware container with a bit of ecoearth and spritzed him down, but I'm curious about its identity. My best guess is...

I recently heard of some people in my area of the southeast US keeping their panther chameleons outdoors 24/7 during the summer. Aside from the obvious concerns about enclosure security & predators, what are your thoughts on keeping a chameleon in an outdoor cage at all times during the warmer...

I've had my male panther, Toby, for over a year now, I reckon he's about 18 months old. He's always been a really picky eater, flatly refusing everything but crickets and super worms. He has three modes: asleep, shy, and p*ssed off. I've always (affectionately) referred to him as a jerk. After...

Hey everybody, I purchased a female amiblobe panther chameleon this morning at a local reptile show. The seller said she's roughly 6 months old and hasn't been bred yet. She's super cute, and seems healthy, though its been mentioned in another thread...

Seriously, I want to know! My panther chameleon, who I purchased hoping that he'd chow down some of my ever expanding dubia colony, has long since moved out of his 24x24x18 exoterra and into a huge custom enclosure. Plus, I've found that he will literally starve himself before deigning to eat...