Non Receptive Female.. Help!!

[viperhdz4]

I have a male blue bar ambilobe panther chameleon aka "Comet" he is around a year and 2 months old and he is ready to breed. On another note I also have a female ambilobe panther aka "Princess" and she is a year old. I just picked her up a few days ago. When I introduced Comet to Princess he fired up all his beautiful colors and started bobbing his head.. On the other hand Princess turned very dark and was non receptive. Any advice? Could it be that since we picked up a few days ago shes is stressed out from the move?

 

[bobcochran]

Her colors don't look receptive to me. Where did you get her? Has she been bred before? She may already be gravid. Or she could have laid infertile eggs not long ago. Or she could have infertile eggs now. She doesn't look ready to lay eggs now either, but that doesn't mean she's not gravid. Female panthers normally become sexually mature before 1 year old. You'll have to wait for her next receptive period, shouldn't be longer than 2 months at the most. But if she was bred before you got her the offspring probably won't be from your male. She will let you and your male know when she's ready to breed by staying a nice peach or pink color and acting passive toward the male when they're together.
If she is gravid now, you'll have to set up an egg laying bin for her.

 

[kinyonga]

You didn't quarantine her before introducing them?

If she's not receptive to him then all you can do is wait and set up an egglaying site in her cage in the meantime in case she is already gravid/carrying infertile eggs.

 

[viperhdz4]

You didn't quarantine her before introducing them?

If she's not receptive to him then all you can do is wait and set up an egglaying site in her cage in the meantime in case she is already gravid/carrying infertile eggs.

I didn't know she had to be quarantined...:/ pretty much the waiting game for now but I don't think she'll be carrying any eggs on her, I couldn't feel any. And her colors haven't changed much. If she was gravid wouldn't she be more darken? Throughout her motherly duties?

 

[viperhdz4]

Her colors don't look receptive to me. Where did you get her? Has she been bred before? She may already be gravid. Or she could have laid infertile eggs not long ago. Or she could have infertile eggs now. She doesn't look ready to lay eggs now either, but that doesn't mean she's not gravid. Female panthers normally become sexually mature before 1 year old. You'll have to wait for her next receptive period, shouldn't be longer than 2 months at the most. But if she was bred before you got her the offspring probably won't be from your male. She will let you and your male know when she's ready to breed by staying a nice peach or pink color and acting passive toward the male when they're together.
If she is gravid now, you'll have to set up an egg laying bin for her.

I picked her up in a local reptile shop, I don't think she is bred before. The owner told me that she was not gravid

 

[kinyonga]

you said..."On the other hand Princess turned very dark and was non receptive"...this is darkening/showing non-receptive/showing egg production as a rule.

 

[viperhdz4]

you said..."On the other hand Princess turned very dark and was non receptive"...this is darkening/showing non-receptive/showing egg production as a rule.

Yeah whenever I first introduced her to Comet. While Comet was firing out all his colors and head bobbing she darkened up and started gaping. I immediately put Princess in her cage and ever since that she haven't really darken. She's just been a peachy color