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Chameleon Info: * Your Chameleon - Furcifer pardalis, Ambanja Panther Chameleon, male, 8 years old. Owned him 8 years. * Handling - I handle him once a week or less in the winter. Twice a day in summer- to transport him to his indoor and outdoor cages. I mostly handle him to check...

Jann, I did everything the care sheets said to do for a panther. Where is the ask for help form? I'd be happy to share my experience. Thanks, Dena

OK, I didn't actually take a whiff of his cloaca. I just noticed the smell is stronger near the tail than the head. better? :rolleyes: he he. Dena

Wow, thank you all for your interest in this topic. I am surprised to hear how unusually old you think my cham is. I guess I did something right! "Blue" (that's what I call him) is in pretty good shape. Comfortable enough, as much as one can imagine a lizard would be. I do care a lot...

there aren't many vets in my area who have chameleon experience. I'm in CT. How would you describe "normal" poops? Thanks! Dena

I have a 8 -year-old male Ambanja panther chameleon who recently started to smell skunky. Wondering if anyone else has ever noticed something similar. I feed him roaches that emit a skunky smell when disturbed. And the smell seems to be stronger near the base of his tail. Could it be the...

How fun! My company creates 3D animation- mostly scientific and medical. We once created a chameleon for fun too. Yours is cute! -Dena

I am not talking about gelatin, I am referring to products like "Cricket Quencher" which are made of Polyacrylamide copolymer, a man made product. What I said earlier:

My chameleon eats one or two roaches maybe every other or every third day. They are fat and large- I feed to my cham. the sub-adults which are about one inch in length and 1/2" in width. Very filling. Don't forget, the cockroaches are also eating food- not just drinking from the moisture...

My cockroaches do eat the "plastic" cricket quencher and they are now consuming the moisture munchies. Only a tiny portion dries up. If more were to dry up, then I suspect there is too much available to them. I do not know how crickets behave, whether they eat it or suck up the moisture...

The powdered Agar was around $8 US and will make many batches. One batch (using 2 Tbps.) made more ounces of moisture munchies than the one jar of cricket quencher (which was around $7-8 US). I know this because I tried to refill the old cricket quencher container with the new moisture...

Compared to what I was using, the Agar (aka Agar agar) is the cheaper way to go.

Hi lele, After making the Agar, I realized it is the same "stuff" used in petri dishes in laboratories. I remember it well from science experiments in school. Good news! The roaches enjoy the moisture munchies just as much as the plastic, co-polymer, commercially-available, cricket quencher...

nutrition of cockroaches I've been feeding my Panther chameleon mostly cockroaches during the winter. They are so easy to keep and don't smell anywhere near what the crickets do. I give them a homemade dry gutload mix using (listed randomly, not in order of quantity): rice baby food...

home made moisture munchies I bought some Agar tonight at the health food store and made my own moisture munchies. I was happy to see the Agar has it's own nutritional value with calcium and iron, among a few other nutrients. It was EASY to make and the small bottle of powder will make many...

Thanks for your response. I placed an order today!

Hello there, This is my first post on the forums! I have a male panther- Ambanja who is about 6 years old- and I've had him since he was itty bitty. I bought silkworms from Mulberry Farms in the past with no problems. Fast service, healthy silkies and great prices. I read a few months...