1st Post and my new Setups with my new Chams

[Prestonean]

Hello Friends - Very thankful for the excellent advice on this forum.

Over the last couple weeks I've started my new Chameleon family. I have two questions, but I'm going to post the other one separately.

After several weeks of contemplation, I purchased to Ambilobes from Panther Company and they arrived today. A male from Leo, and a female from Pyro. They are around 5 weeks old.

I really love the yellows on Leo, so I am hopeful that my guy will turn out to be yellow, and then if things are looking good this time next year - the two of them could get together for more yellow Panthers.

Here are pics of the two of them, and then my setup - these are the ReptiBreeze Medium cages - so they have plenty of room to grow into these cages. Is there such a thing as the cage being TOO large for these little ones?

I'm measuring the basking temp and comparing it to the caresheets - should I do anything different with neonates? They're ok with the temp getting down to ~68 at night?

Thanks in advance!

Female:

Male:

Male trying to catch drops out of the dripper.

Cages with the lights out as we're headed to bed:

 

[jannb]

Welcome to the forums and congrats on you new little ones. If the cage is to large it can be hard for them to get their food unless you are cup feeding and some babies will not eat out of a cup. Most breeders don't take the time tom cup feed. 68 at night should be ok but wouldn't drop any lower for babies. Your pictures didn't show up for me so I can't comment on those.
You might find these two links helpful.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-keepers-young-veiled-panther-chameleons.html
https://www.chameleonforums.com/some-thoughts-breeding-2612/

 

[Prestonean]

thanks much

Thanks again Jannb - I have read all through that "thoughts on breeding" post - definitely great thoughts. But I don't think I'd seen your 'Info for new keepers with young veiled or panther chameleons' post - so that's great.

So far they've both been catching 1/8" crickets so I don't think that finding the food will be a problem.