Exclusively outdoors?

[WayneL333]

Hi everyone,

I guess this questions is for you guys in more moderate temperate areas. Do any of you guys keep your panther chams exclusively outdoors? I live near the beach in Los Angeles and it only gets really cold or really hot a couple weeks out of the year.

I'd like to let my chams enjoy the year long outdoor weather like I do. I plan on connecting my mistking system to my outdoor cages as well as provide a cermaic bulb heat lamp for nighttime warmth.

And for when the weather prediction is for really cold nights, I will bring them into my garage.

Thanks in advance!

 

[carol5208]

I live in Florida and keep mine outside most of the day when weather permits and I am home. At night they sleep on my patio which is still outdoors and screened in. I know of a few other keepers down here also that keep them outside year round and they do ok. The main thing is the heat and the extreme cold.

 

[raphael14]

I keep mine outside all the time, Like Carol said when the weather start getting cold like low 60's i will bring them inside. Watch for high heat mine are under a big oak tree where they get shade and sunlight during the day. Misting often and drippers in my case.

 

[Action Jackson]

I live in So Cal and keep my Panther out as much as possible. When the weather gets real cold as in 50 degrees and lower I will bring him in. You may be able to use a ceramic heater outside at night and keep them out but the day time temps might not be warm enough to do it long term. I have noticed over the years that the first signs that they are to cold is their eyes get dried out and the have trouble opening them.

I still have all my Chameleon outside and I just checked my tempreture gauge and the lowest tempreture recorded the last few days was 48 degrees. With daytime temps in the 70's still I feel they are ok so far but i always keep a close eye on them.

 

[yeahbuddy661]

Hey man Im out in Socal also. Yeah you can do that just as you said but get one of those devices that turns your ceramic heater on if it drops below 57

 

[FabrizioHC]

I would just recommend you to bring them in when it starts to get dark. We're fortunate and have a lot of wild life, specially coyotes, mountain cats, owls, and snakes. All those could easily eat a chameleon, so just make sure they're safe at night and you'll be good.

 

[WayneL333]

I would just recommend you to bring them in when it starts to get dark. We're fortunate and have a lot of wild life, specially coyotes, mountain cats, owls, and snakes. All those could easily eat a chameleon, so just make sure they're safe at night and you'll be good.

You bring up a good point. But the worst thing that come into my fenced-in yard is maybe a raccoon and/or an opossum and I have a particularly ferocious Yorkie that scares them away.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

 

[Action Jackson]

Yikes. Where do you live? Right against the wetlands? What is a mountain cat? Just curious.

I would just recommend you to bring them in when it starts to get dark. We're fortunate and have a lot of wild life, specially coyotes, mountain cats, owls, and snakes. All those could easily eat a chameleon, so just make sure they're safe at night and you'll be good.

 

[FabrizioHC]

Yikes. Where do you live? Right against the wetlands? What is a mountain cat? Just curious.

Southern California.

I know there's a bunch of mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains, which is closer to Los Angeles than Santa Monica, but you find a couple every now and then wandering off. California is full of coyotes, specially near the coast, there's also a bunch of possums and raccoons. Humans waste a lot of food.

 

[WayneL333]

Yikes. Where do you live? Right against the wetlands? What is a mountain cat? Just curious.

Oh yeah, we get mountain lions that come down from the foothills. Last year, they killed one in freakin downtown Santa Monica. This is basically the west side of Los Angeles mind you!

When I lived up in the Santa Monica Mountains in Brentwood (of OJ fame) we'd get rattlers, scorpions and coyotes in our garage all the time. We definitely had to keep our yorkie indoors at night. The huge owls were big enough to swoop down and pick him up.

 

[Action Jackson]

I'm in HB too and I know we have some cougars in the neighborhood.