Male or female? choices
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snipeusa14
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Before you start thinking about a female an mating her...female are much different to take care of when it comes to supplementing,Chage set up placing a laying bin and stuff like that I would suggest staying away from female until you have experience with chameleons in general..I'm an average keeper, it will be 1 year sence I started keeping chams and I don't have a female..but that's just me.
Mating is a while different ball game with chameleons when It comes to when to breed and to what male.how to get your female healthy after laying eggs and while she is.
Hope this is helpful and please correct me on any misinformative text
EDIT: also I forgot about taking care of the babies with caging feeding and lighting.separating the males when the time is right keeping the babies healthy and well fed.
If your in to chameleons to breed and make a quick buck, chams are not for you...once the female
Lays eggs and the babies come you have to buy lots and lots of food and after a few months you have to separate the males and put them in thier own cage so it's very expensive and time consuming to mate,hatch, ect.
Ok now I'm done :3
Mating is a while different ball game with chameleons when It comes to when to breed and to what male.how to get your female healthy after laying eggs and while she is.
Hope this is helpful and please correct me on any misinformative text
EDIT: also I forgot about taking care of the babies with caging feeding and lighting.separating the males when the time is right keeping the babies healthy and well fed.
If your in to chameleons to breed and make a quick buck, chams are not for you...once the female
Lays eggs and the babies come you have to buy lots and lots of food and after a few months you have to separate the males and put them in thier own cage so it's very expensive and time consuming to mate,hatch, ect.
Ok now I'm done :3
snipeusa14
Established Member
Accidentally hit send on my phone while i was typing
chendy
New Member
Also i have an additional question
i currently own one male jacksons
it should go without saying that chams should never be able to see the other, and never housed together obviously.
however if i take the proper steps can they be in the same room as long as they cant see each other?
i currently own one male jacksons
it should go without saying that chams should never be able to see the other, and never housed together obviously.
however if i take the proper steps can they be in the same room as long as they cant see each other?
Olimpia
Biologist & Ecologist
Yes, you could keep them in the same room without problems with visual barriers. If you can put the cages parallel then that makes it super easy, since you only need the one divider between the cages.
I have both, male and a female panthers, and I love both for different reasons. Daedalus is bigger and is my favorite shade of turquoise, which is obviously nice. While my female is about half the size and very pretty subtle shades of pink, peach, purple, tan, etc. I just made a thread about my girl here: https://www.chameleonforums.com/azura-panther-female-outside-70228/ So I think she's super pretty, but in a dainty, subtle way. Both of mine are super sweet, gentle chameleons but each one's personality is going to vary a lot, like with any other animal.
There is slightly different care with females, this is true. Since they'll develop and lay infertile eggs you're going to want to keep them cooler than a male (more like your Jackson's, at a hottest temp of 80*F and the 75*F ambient temp) and feed her less once they hit about 5 months old. This in theory slows down their metabolisms and slows or halts this egg production. Which hopefully makes your pet female live longer. You also need to stay really on top of their supplementation, perhaps even giving several drops of liquid calcium every week in addition to normal calcium dusting.
The choice is yours. Caring for females isn't hard, by any means, but there is stuff to consider. Things can go wrong if she does lay, and just in general egg laying can be stressful for us owners, but they are very rewarding to keep.
I have both, male and a female panthers, and I love both for different reasons. Daedalus is bigger and is my favorite shade of turquoise, which is obviously nice. While my female is about half the size and very pretty subtle shades of pink, peach, purple, tan, etc. I just made a thread about my girl here: https://www.chameleonforums.com/azura-panther-female-outside-70228/ So I think she's super pretty, but in a dainty, subtle way. Both of mine are super sweet, gentle chameleons but each one's personality is going to vary a lot, like with any other animal.
There is slightly different care with females, this is true. Since they'll develop and lay infertile eggs you're going to want to keep them cooler than a male (more like your Jackson's, at a hottest temp of 80*F and the 75*F ambient temp) and feed her less once they hit about 5 months old. This in theory slows down their metabolisms and slows or halts this egg production. Which hopefully makes your pet female live longer. You also need to stay really on top of their supplementation, perhaps even giving several drops of liquid calcium every week in addition to normal calcium dusting.
The choice is yours. Caring for females isn't hard, by any means, but there is stuff to consider. Things can go wrong if she does lay, and just in general egg laying can be stressful for us owners, but they are very rewarding to keep.
okiroo
Avid Member
i started with a female and than got another. i really like them their super cute.
start with whatever YOU want. so long as you have a care guid and are willing to do right by her theres absolutly no problem. just be aware of possible problems such as egg binding (even when a bin is present a vet trip may have to occur)
Meow Kitty
New Member
with males they do get some "fire colors" compared to females
females as stated above do require different care
i recommend a male becuase boys are better then girls... in general
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females as stated above do require different care
i recommend a male becuase boys are better then girls... in general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ haha jokes
thephotoprincess
Avid Member
I started with a female (veiled, I don't have panthers). The fact that you are already thinking about these things makes me think you would do just fine with a female. It's a little different but not any more difficult.
Personally I've never had much interest in panthers but if I were to get one I would likely get a female. I think the peachy coloring is adorable.
Personally I've never had much interest in panthers but if I were to get one I would likely get a female. I think the peachy coloring is adorable.
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