New to breeding would appreciate help/tips

[Darthroastcoffee]

I have 2 male ambilobe panthers, a male nose be, a male ambanja, and a female ambilobe being shipped to me soon. I’ve tried to find out what locals they are exactly but got really nowhere with that so I’m assuming but that’s for another forum. Any tips or advice I can get on breeding, when to breed, how to set up the enclosures, temps, etc. all and any advice helps!!

 

[CJ's Exotics]

I have 2 male ambilobe panthers, a male nose be, a male ambanja, and a female ambilobe being shipped to me soon. I’ve tryed to find out what locals they are exactly but got really nowhere with that so I’m assuming but that’s for another forum. Any tips or advice I can get on breeding, when to breed, how to set up the enclosures, temps, etc. all and any advice helps!!

First of all, you don't know what locales you purchased? Second, why did you buy so many chameleons if this is your first time breeding?

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

It starded as a hobby I figured I’d give breeding a shot. And I was told what they are but some people don’t know what they are talking about..

 

[CJ's Exotics]

It starded as a hobby I figured I’d give breeding a shot. And I was told what they are but some people don’t know what they are talking about..

But why did you order so many?

 

[kinyonga]

How is the male with the prolapse?

You're saying some people told you the locales but they didn't know what they were talking about...how do you know they don't know?
If you can't get an answer on this forum it's because it's almost impossible to tell for sure with Panthers and especially females.

As for breeding...I wouldn't mate a female until she is a year old and full grown. If you over feed the females constantly once they reach their receptive colors you will make them produce large clutches and compromise the female's health in the process.
There's a lot to know about breeding and hatching eggs and raising the babies toman age that they can be sold.

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

The male with the prolapse is doin good it stayed in thank god. But will definitely not be breeding him. But I’m not just goin to jump right into breeding anything until I learn as much as I can i figured I’d start getting as much information as possible.

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

So many because there awesome and I didn’t get them all at once just opportunities that I’ve come across.

 

[kinyonga]

You said..."The male with the prolapse is doin good it stayed in thank god. But will definitely not be breeding him"...glad he's ok and that you aren't going to breed him!

You said..." But I’m not just goin to jump right into breeding anything until I learn as much as I can i figured I’d start getting as much information as possible"...good idea!

If you have more questions just ask...there are lots if people in here who have bred and hatched and raised chameleon!

 

[NickTide]

Just re read it... so you have the males and the female is on its way? I thought they were all coming at once when I first read it. lol.

At the top of this page there is a tab labeled "Resources." There is lots of good info in there including care sheets for particular species.

It is best to breed after the female is a year old. Some say let her lay a batch of infertile eggs. Count the eggs- too many eggs may mean you are over feeding.

Summer is coming so having some outside cages (in shaded area- indirect sunlight) is very helpful for the adults. I used 1/4 wire because I don't trust screen to keep cats and other critters out.

Make sure you have fruit fly cultures ready long before the eggs are due to hatch. Even If you are planning to use pinhead crickets as your main feeder, you don't know when there will be a shortage, a doa shipment etc..

Not sure if this is standard anymore, but back when I bred veildes, most people put eggs in small cups (1 - 4 eggs per cup), rather than in one container. when one hatches, it tends to trigger all the others next to it to hatch and that starts a chain reaction. One early hatcher could cause others to hatch way too early.

*Research this first.... I was told years ago that panther eggs needed warmer days and cooler nights. Some friends that were raising panther had their incubator set to turn on during the day and off at night giving a temp swing. They convinced me to do this with my vieldes, It resulted with my veildes getting half hatched and dying. Lost half my clutch like this. Anyway. I am not sure if if panther eggs can handle a temp swing. Hopefully someone here will let us know but keep this in mind if you are hatching somewhere that gets temp swings. The living room may be 82 degrees one day, then you turn on the AC and its 68.

That's all I can think of. My panthers aren't quite old enough to breed yet. Just getting back into Chams.

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

I’m keeping them in the garage it’s always at 75 room temp but I don’t plan on just doin it half way. I’m looking into turning my mini fridge into an incubator or just buying a decent one. But I heard something along the lines of 73 degrees for a few months then drop a few degrees for a couple of months then back up I don’t know the specifics yet just the idea but I understand the fruit fly concern I lost a small batch of Jackson chameleon because I couldn’t find anything for them to eat. I didn’t know she was pregnant tho I got her and a month later.... but I’ve been breeding my own crickets I go thru about 1000 every week I just started breeding the crickets tho so only got about 500 and more in another tub just starting and more being layed to continue the population. I got the 4 panther chameleons one on the way I got 2 vaild chameleons one male one female, one male Jackson, the female jackson passed away after she had her babies about 2 or 3 weeks later she would not eat. I also have a Nile monitor and a Savannah monitor and a giant day gecko if I could I’d have a lot more but my electric bill is getting pretty crazy haha

 

[CJ's Exotics]

Okay, I'm glad you specified. It didn't seem clear at first, I thought you just bought a bunch of chameleons to "give breeding a shot", lol, I apologize. I personally can't give you any tips, just keep making fruit fly cultures! One cool thing is, if the eggs have not hatched by the time the fruitflies are booming, make another culture with some flies from the other, and sell the culture!

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

Yea I have to look into that also idk how good it is but when my crickets hatch there about the size of fruit flies but I don’t now maybe fruit flies are more nutritious but I almost always have like nat size crickets

 

[CJ's Exotics]

Yea I have to look into that also idk how good it is but when my crickets hatch there about the size of fruit flies but I don’t now maybe fruit flies are more nutritious but I almost always have like nat size crickets

Fruit flies are no maintenance though.

 

[Darthroastcoffee]

Yea I’ll definitely give it a shot I will do as much as possible any tips are all useful I really appreciate the feedback and help