How old is he?
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He is at least a year old based on how thick he is. Make sure he is on an every other day feeding of no more than 3-5 feeders. Need to watch his weight. No way to know for sure on age. Could be a year could be 3 or could be 5.
Being in the back of the cage dark may be a response to the cage set up and or equipment being used. Can you post a pic of the entire cage including the lighting on top?
Being in the back of the cage dark may be a response to the cage set up and or equipment being used. Can you post a pic of the entire cage including the lighting on top?
Lucas00-
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Beman, how long have you been in the chameleon keeping life? You always got the best info I swear lol I appreciate you so much.
Lucas00-
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Beautiful little dude you got there
BleuSaphir
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Goodness, even if it faded. He still got remarkable colors. I can only imagine when he’s fired up excited.
Thank you !
Thanks we named him Cane he is a beautiful one
we have the female but she is not ready at all
I will def take pictures of his cage. It probably needs more folliage they love to feel secure in their cage that is for sure .i am trying to pair him up with the female but she is a feisty one and he is a gentlemen he dnt insist he jst leaves her alone
Ok I am going to just ask this question. I have seen people decide to breed here and get in over their head. Why are you wanting to breed? You do know this is an extremely expensive endeavor to set up tons of baby cages and you can end up stuck with a lot of babies right? I know you already bred a female. I am not sure how many you have now. I know you have asked questions in the forum on gender of babies etc. I would just hate to see you get in over your head. There is more than just breeding them and bad things can happen when they are not ready to be paired. I mean very serious injuries, just because a female is smaller than a male does not mean they can not cause a lot of damage to a male when they are not receptive and they are paired. Just my two cents... Let him acclimate. Something is going on if he is sitting dark all the time.
My fiance is a reptile breeder . He has his own thing going on and trust me we out their healths first I know alot of pple out there just breed and don’t care about the reptiles health, we do. The ones we have sold we still follow up with customers. I support my fiances reptile business. We dnt force them to breed if they don’t want to. Maybe next year they might and if they don’t breed then it is okay. We have all
The supplies and cages ready for all of them. I know how
Much it takes for a breeder to set things right. I will take a pic of his enclosure later on . Idk how old he is they said he was 1 yr and it was a breeding pair that they sold to us
For alot of money because Cap est pair can b expensive and it is hard to find the female
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he sells feeders and as well and we don’t only breed chameleons also other reptiles and their health is always first but I ask because he sits dark and i just hope we did not buy a sick cham from that person when he cost alot of $$
Yeah I did my research on them beautiful chams. Alot of names have changed over the years. The female looks like a cap Est she is very different frm my female ambilobe
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Honestly you wont know for sure if she is truly a Cap Est until you have the first clutch hatch and hold back a few males to see how their colors develop. They call this proving out the female. If the male offspring look to be 100% as they mature then you have a proven female of that locale. If they do not show cap est coloring then the female is not actually that locale.
Nice looking female!
Female panther chameleons are hard to determine the type they are in almost all types. There can be very subtle indications in some of the types IMHO.
You might like to read this…
https://chameleonacademy.com/panther-chameleon-locales-how-to-choose/
“The changes across the range are seen in the males. The females are a beautiful pink, salmon, brown or gray, but the females of all the locales show the same color variations so there is no way to tell the locale of the females just by looking at her. And those of you who are fans of foreshadowing will note that this will cause huge problems later in our story.”
Female panther chameleons are hard to determine the type they are in almost all types. There can be very subtle indications in some of the types IMHO.
You might like to read this…
https://chameleonacademy.com/panther-chameleon-locales-how-to-choose/
“The changes across the range are seen in the males. The females are a beautiful pink, salmon, brown or gray, but the females of all the locales show the same color variations so there is no way to tell the locale of the females just by looking at her. And those of you who are fans of foreshadowing will note that this will cause huge problems later in our story.”
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