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[playgrounddtsa]

Hello,

Ive been a reader on this site for a long time but this is my first post. I have always kept reptiles, chameleons on and off. The other day I moved my 1.5 year male Ambilobe into a larger screen enclosure, 18 x 18 x 36, I placed him up against the screen for him to climb in and he fell. I thought that I had dropped him until I realized he could not climb back up. After inspection i couldn't see his fingernails/toes. I also did not find them in the screen. It is almost as if all his claws came off at once, and now he cannot grip the screen, while earlier that morning he was just fine. I Should also note that he was in shed at the time. However, he had a very quick shed and cleaned up perfectly but still could not climb on the screen. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[SaintJimmy]

My veiled chameleon lost a nail the same way. Never found it.

I don't think they grow back because now he is quite older than when it happened and he still only has one nail on that side of his foot.

To prevent this, you can buy some sort of plastic or plastic coated grating that's larger than the screen cage holes and place it around the cage so that when they want to climb the screen, they climb that instead and it's much gentler on their feet.

Also, if your panther is an adult, (7-9 + months) he really needs to be in a 24x24x48 cage.