@Veiledpanther15 See my feedback in bold.
The pet store didn’t have an age for her when I got her in December but I’m thinking 7-10 months.
•chameleon-female panther chameleon, 7-10 months I’ve had her for almost 4 months
•handIing- used to take her out once a day or every other day when I fed her but I haven’t the past 3ish weeks
•feeding- I feed her mainly crickets with some dubia roaches and I’ll give her a couple wax or meal worms a couple time I week. I’ll feed her 7-10 bugs a day and I’ve been just leaving them in a feeder cup but used to hand feed her. I put grapes/carrots/apples in with the feeders.
She is eating a bit too much for a female. With females temps at basking and food intake directly impact how many eggs she will lay. You want her to be eating 3 days a week of three feeders. I would drop the mealworms and waxworms. Mealworms are very low in nutritional value and waxworms are all fat. You could add in superworms or even BSFL. See image below for feeders and gutload. You will want to expand your gutload to include more of the leafy greens on this image.
•supplements- I cannot remember the brand off the top of my head, but I use calcium w/out d3 every feeding and a multivitamin with d3 every other Wednesday.
Per the image of your supplements those work. And your rotation is perfect. On the new feeding schedule you would still only give the reptivite with D3 2 times a month so every other week at one feeding then all the other feedings would be calcium without D3. Make sure your lightly dusting feeders. No powdered donuts look.
•drinking- I mist her cage once before she wakes up at 8 and once after she goes to bed at 9:30 for 3 mins each and I have a dropper during the day. I do see her drinking.
this is good.
•fecal- firm brown part with the urate almost all white with a little bit of orange at the end. Got her fecal tested 2 weeks ago and came out good.
wonderful.
•history- she used to climb around all over and come out whenever I put my hand in the cage. Also had antibiotic for ri a few weeks ago.
•I built a cage for her it’s 24x24x36 with all screen besides one as a divider as I have a veiled next to her. With 4-5 live plants laying bin and sticks.
see image below for laying bin. You can use washed play sand or a combo of sand and soil.
•lighting- again can’t remember off the top of my head I’ll have to look when I get home. But I have a 48’’ linear t5 uvb going across 2 cages. With a 65w heat lamp. Light go from 8:30-8:30
Double check this for me. I would like to know the bulb strength and the distance to basking branch below it.
•temp- it’ll go from 65 at the bottom to 85 at her basking spot and at night it’ll drop to 65-70 in the cage. I’m using a laser heat gun from Home Depot.
You want to reduce basking temp since she is a girl. 78-80 MAX. I prefer the temp gauge with wired probe at basking to get a real temp rather then the surface temp you get from a gun.
•humidity- stays at around 40 during the day and at night will go up to 70-75. I use live plants and a mist king to keep the humidity up. Using hygrometer.
40% is just slightly too low for daytime 50-60% is usually the range we want for a Panther.
•plants- I have a golden pothos, money tree, and two other I cannot remember but will post a picture.
•location- the cage is at the foot of my bed and at night I cover it with towels so light doesn’t get into the cage. There is a a couple feet above the cage not blowing down into it. The cage is about 4 feet at the top.
•I’m located in northern Utah.
•current problem- not moving barley eating.
I think she is gravid... But she is also showing edema. This could very well be due to her getting ready to lay. Or it could be due to the antibiotic. I am not as concerned about the not eating or basking but if she becomes lethargic or closing her eyes during the day she needs a Vet asap. If you have a good reptile vet you can take her to they can take an xray to see where she is with her eggs.
You will not want basking to be over 78-80 for her. Very important for females because she needs this temp no higher at basking to help control the amount of eggs she produces. This along with feeder schedule being 3 feeders 3 days a week will help reduce clutch size making it easier on her. The exception is after they lay. You will feed her well for a few days.
Can you show a few pics of the lay bin? You may need to cover the bottom half of the cage so she feels like she has more privacy. Typically people will use a lightweight sheet for this. You want to make sure if she digs it will hold a tunnel which is why more people use washed playsand. The bin does not need to be deep 6 inches will work fine for her. Here is a link with a video about the playsand and what you need to do with it. https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/laying-bin-set-up-educational-video.77225/
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