10 month old panther chameleon
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Hey there welcome to the forum. Do you have more pics? Not sure that is a male so I would love to see some pics where I can see the tail base to confirm gender. When was the hatch date? Even for a female 8 grams would be way too low for a female of 10 months. I would suggest getting a fecal tested to rule out a parasite load. This is what we most commonly see with very low weight chams and the cause of them not reaching their growth potential.
So I am very much seeing a little girl. There is absolutely no hemipenal bulge to indicate male.
Did you run multiple fecal tests spaced out a few weeks apart? Parasites will run in cycles so you can easily get a false negative if the fecal is tested when they are not producing oocysts.
If the fecals are coming back negative every time they run them then I would say it more than likely has to do with the genetics. Unless there are aspects in husbandry that are off and effecting overall growth. But even with that I would doubt it and lean to a genetic issue. Hopefully with her being so tiny her reproductive organs do not kick in... I would be very concerned about one this tiny trying to produce eggs. But that is for sure a female and not a male. You would see a slight bulge at the very least even with one this small.
