Panther egg or wait

[KyleFitzz]

I may be getting my first panther very soon. A breeder I know has some eggs available for me to purchase. I could either buy the egg and wait for it to hatch. Or I can wait a few months and get my panther. I'm getting antsy and idk if I want to wait months to get him. And it'd be a good experience to raise him. Should I go for the purchase or be patient?

 

[ReptileLove18]

i highly recommend being patient and getting your panther in a couple months. reasons for this are shipping eggs or moving eggs out of incubator could be potentially fatal for the eggs. they should not be moved at all after being put in the incubator until they hatch because movement such can cause the suffication of the growing chameleon as it attaches on one side of the egg and grows. so in my opinion it would be much better to wait it out and get your panther after he is hatched

 

[vcao333]

Definitely wait, i'm no expert, but hatching eggs and raising newly hatched chams is not what a new-to-the-hobby person should generally try to undertake. unfortunately in my case that task was thrust upon me through odd circumstances. and from my experience so far, it's nervewracking pressure to have everything i can control be correct and hours and hours of researching online and combing through forum posts. thats EXTRA on top of the already very specific needs of chameleons. i don't want to sound like a hypocrite, but if i could have chosen, i would've had my first exposure to the hobby be an adult or near adult

 

[Hoj]

Definatly wait for the cham IMO, raising a newborn cham is alot of work and attetion required.

 

[KyleFitzz]

Well I've been raising a Jackson's since he was 3 months and he's doing great. He is 7 months old now and thriving. I have no issues at all. I understand what you guys are saying though. But I can certainly take care and raise anything. I'm very confident and have a lot of knowledge, I've researched for hours and hours.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

What if the egg doesn't hatch? Then you're just out your money. Not every egg is guaranteed to hatch. And the difference between a hatchling and a 3 month old cham is quite large. Congrats on your jackson, but waiting until the panther baby is older is a very wise idea! The wait makes you crazy though.

 

[sandrachameleon]

I agree. Wait.

 

[imcurt]

Well I've been raising a Jackson's since he was 3 months and he's doing great. He is 7 months old now and thriving. I have no issues at all. I understand what you guys are saying though. But I can certainly take care and raise anything. I'm very confident and have a lot of knowledge, I've researched for hours and hours.

Raising a 3 month is quite easy compared to raising a neonate.They are very touchy. Once they get a bit dehydrated there vision goes first.most will not recover from this.some are picky eaters, I raise 3 kinds of fruitflys,and stick bugs just for the neonates. Then there incubating them. A while back I traded some ambilobe eggs for some nosybe eggs,, not a single nosybe egg hatched and they were traded local. As far as shipping eggs goes it must be done with in the first 7-14 days before they start to form or the air bubble settles to the top . And they can still get destroyed in shipping. The first time the FedEx guy slams the box or tosses it the embryo/yoke will not make it.repuitable breeders don't ship eggs.....choose your breeder wisely!