Female for my male, help!

[Melusine11]

Hi,

I just got a gorgeous female jackson's for the male i already had. They are both 14-20 months old. He's very mellow and has shown no signs of stress when they were introduced to eachother. However, she takes on dark speckled colors and bobs back and forth when he's in eyesight.

The owner of the store where i have purchased my other reptile told me that they would be fine together, she might get antsy around him so it is good that she is slightly larger than he is. I'm just concerned that she will constantly be stressed and it will very much affect her livelyhood.

Should i go ahead and put them in separate enclosures? He also mentioned that she may be gravid. Does this affect her behavior towards other chams?

Thanks for any help!

 

[danibug23]

yes she needs her on enclosure cant help with the whole gravid thing though someone else will come along shortly and answer that for you

 

[coldbloodedAL]

imo I would deff separate them. Sometimes chams can get along, but way more often they dont get along. She is already showing signs she is stressed. The possibility that she may be gravid is another good reason for splitting them. If she were to drop the babies with him around i would think he may try to eat them I am in no way an expert but others will probably say the same.

 

[camimom]

Except for pygmy chameleons, we recommend all chameleons be housed seperately, except when being bred.
If she is gravid, she will display darker colors and get pissy towards a male.
I cannot tell you how female jacks behave when gravid because I don't own jacks, but I would def recommend she have her own home all the time. and they should only be put togethre when its time to breed, and only when they are both being non aggressive.

 

[Olimpia]

If she's gravid she will want nothing to do with the male, because there's no point in her mind. She already has young developing, and he's just going to want to mate sooner or later. So for now (she should be in quarantine anyway, at least for a couple months, if you just got her) she should be separate from him.

Some people have success keeping chameleons together, but it works better when there's a lot of space. Even something like a 4'x2'x2' cage is not going to cut it for two animals. So I wouldn't try it unless there's really a lot of space for them to live separate lives if they want to.

 

[lindawaz]

Since you just got that one quarantine it. Until you know they are truly healthy including a fecal test. Would be a shame if sick and passed it on to your old one
I don't know about the questions you asked leaving that for the Jackson Keepers