Awesome break through with my panther!!!

[shells]

My panther Sultan drank from the "warm" misting today, he came real close to me and started drinking, I was soooo happy, he usually runs from me but today he stepped into the mist and came close to drink. He also climbed on my hand as I held out a cup of dusted crickets for him! He has never came to me willingly like that before, it was awesome

 

[laurie]

Great news! Another panther has been won over!

 

[rcutchens]

That's AWESOME and congratulations, shells! Rico has no problem taking food from a cup or tweezers/thongs or even by hand but I've yet to see him drink from the dripper nor really get motivated by the mistings even when using warm water which we do every time.

Any tips/advice on how you got Sultan to drink from the misting? Also, how old is he?

 

[eisentrauti]

Wow ! What a break through in chameleon keeping ! *ironicmodus off*

 

[shells]

I used tepid/warm water today after reading about misting in a post in here, he hated the cool water and always ran away, but today using the warm water he suddenly decided he liked it warm and came for a drink, I was amazed! He is 8 months old I think Harry his breeder said, I've only had him a week or so, so for him to be trusting me already I must be doing something right haha. He eats alot of crickets too, he eats at least ten at one feeding and never leaves any stragglers, he stalks and eats all of them and would eat more and more if I put them in, how many is enough I wonder!

 

[shells]

*ironicmodus off* ???????????

 

[rcutchens]

I used tepid/warm water today after reading about misting in a post in here, he hated the cool water and always ran away, but today using the warm water he suddenly decided he liked it warm and came for a drink, I was amazed! He is 8 months old I think Harry his breeder said, I've only had him a week or so, so for him to be trusting me already I must be doing something right haha. He eats alot of crickets too, he eats at least ten at one feeding and never leaves any stragglers, he stalks and eats all of them and would eat more and more if I put them in, how many is enough I wonder!

Thanks! I've been using warm water but Rico hasn't responded quite like that yet. He's younger though and I wonder if that may have something to do with it. Without knowing for sure I suspect they may become more emboldened as they grow older and presumably wiser so as to be less "fearful" of the world around them but I'm just speculating. I'm sure each chameleon has it's own personality that dictates what he or she is willing to do as well.

As for the crickets, I'm not entirely sure and I'm not sure there's an exact answer. Again, I assume each chameleon is a little different. Rico is a 4 month old Ambilobe panther and he eats about 6 to 8 crickets that are typically less than a 1/2" twice daily.

 

[shells]

My Sultan is an ambilobe panther too, aren't they beautiful! Do you have any pics of him, we loveeee pictures in here

 

[rcutchens]

Yes. I've posted an album called Rico's world that has some pics of him!

https://www.chameleonforums.com/members/rcutchens-albums-rico-s-world.html

 

[laurie]

*ironicmodus off* ???????????

That is just Benny saying he was not greatly impressed with the "break through". Benny is a bit more scientific - that is irony.

 

[shells]

Well, I am inpressed haha

 

[rcutchens]

Well, I am inpressed haha

Haaa!

I don't know Benny but being that he's, "a bit more scientific," as laurie posted, I imagine that the term "break through" holds a completely different connotation for him!

Being less scientific myself, I'm still impressed with your "break through"!

 

[eisentrauti]

Next time I will write "irony on" .... "irony off"
A break through is in my eyes a method to hatch 90% of the eggs of a parsonii clutch or a F5 generation of a species (excluding pardalis, calyptratus and lateralis)

 

[shells]

Well Benny, for us new people who have never owned a cham before, every little improvement is a break through, my mommy alwayssss said, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing at all"

 

[Obama the cham]

that would be a break through and a half!

 

[shells]

Thank you Rcutchens

 

[Olimpia]

Benny, that's why this is a breakthrough with HER panther. No point in demeaning what to her was a lovely moment with her pet.

Shells, I can completely relate! When I first got my WC Jackson's, he was terrified of me. And a couple months later we had the same experience, and after that he was 100% more comfortable with me. After that I never had a problem hand feeding or handling him, and it meant a lot to finally see him be comfortable with me and his new captive life.

 

[DeviousMike]

I have one of rico's brothers (not sure if they are from the same clutch) but he is the most skittish thing on earth. He's scared of cups and does not respond to tweezer dangled food. He does drink in front of me though. Hope he becomes more like his brethren...

 

[rcutchens]

I have one of rico's brothers (not sure if they are from the same clutch) but he is the most skittish thing on earth. He's scared of cups and does not respond to tweezer dangled food. He does drink in front of me though. Hope he becomes more like his brethren...

Hi DeviousMike! Good to meet another "family member" - that Lucifer is quite the stud!

Not sure what to tell you with your chameleon. Rico's never seemed overly skittish by any means but it it helps he didn't like the tweezers AT ALL at first and actually got all fired up when he saw them. I wasn't trying to scare him and, in fact, I was trying to reach into his cage to pluck out some shedded skin from atop some of the plant leaves but he didn't like the things. He was really very new then and the environment was new as were we, the people, so that could have had a lot to do with it.

When we first started using the cup to feed him crickets he wasn't real comfortable with it either but it didn't take long before he changed his attitude. We did change to clear cups and that may have helped because I assume he can see through them and could spot the feeders much easier.

Now he has no problem with either and, as I said, we have to be careful with the tweezers because when he sees them he starts getting excited and starts targeting the tip whether there's any feeders being held in them or not!

Good luck!

 

[DeviousMike]

Hi DeviousMike! Good to meet another "family member" - that Lucifer is quite the stud!

Not sure what to tell you with your chameleon. Rico's never seemed overly skittish by any means but it it helps he didn't like the tweezers AT ALL at first and actually got all fired up when he saw them. I wasn't trying to scare him and, in fact, I was trying to reach into his cage to pluck out some shedded skin from atop some of the plant leaves but he didn't like the things. He was really very new then and the environment was new as were we, the people, so that could have had a lot to do with it.

When we first started using the cup to feed him crickets he wasn't real comfortable with it either but it didn't take long before he changed his attitude. We did change to clear cups and that may have helped because I assume he can see through them and could spot the feeders much easier.

Now he has no problem with either and, as I said, we have to be careful with the tweezers because when he sees them he starts getting excited and starts targeting the tip whether there's any feeders being held in them or not!

Good luck!

I switched to the milk jug with screen glued to the inside for my feeding method of choice and that thing is always empty when I get home. I did handle him recently and it was the first time he didn't try to jump off. He's still a wimp though and will usually run and climb to the ceiling when I go to do stuff inside the cage.