Salty
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I had a 3 month old panther. Had him for just over 2 days. Woke up in the morning and he was dead.
While he was with me he ate a total of 2 crickets, and 1 milworm. I watched him drink two times. I kept him in a large cricket keeper with fake leaves at 80 degrees and RH of about sixty five percent. The cricket keeper was placed in a larger cage where I keep the 8 month old.They did not bother each other and could not get to each other. The larger enclosur is 4 and a half feet tall and about 2 and a half wide and 2 and a half deep. I have four live plants in the cage. All of which were included on the safe plant list. I did wash all of them off in the shower for quite some time prior to puting them into the habitat. I purchased lighting from Light your reptiles.com I have the 5.o UVB and 65 k. They are both 2 foot T5 bulbs. I also have a 150 wat heat bulb that is about 6 inches above the cage.
The night before he died I split bamboo like you would cut carrots into carrot sticks. ( in order to make the bamboo smaller like he was ) I made an elaborite looking little jungle gym out of the bamboo sticks and hot glue. I then glued some plastic leaves around the outside of it so he would feal hidden and placed his new jungle gym on top of some other fake foliage. When I last saw him, he was sleeping on a leaf, showing some blue and resting peacefully.
I turned off the lights. AT 10:30 Or 11 oclock.. No draft in the house. and my thermostat was set at 71 degrees.
6:00 this morning he was dead.
at this point I had him in my posetion for less than 3 days, I had held him one time, just long enough to transfer him from a bowl to his cricket keeper.
I have listed everything as accuratelly as I can in the hopes of learning my mistake.
What did I do wrong?
I had a 3 month old panther. Had him for just over 2 days. Woke up in the morning and he was dead.
While he was with me he ate a total of 2 crickets, and 1 milworm. I watched him drink two times. I kept him in a large cricket keeper with fake leaves at 80 degrees and RH of about sixty five percent. The cricket keeper was placed in a larger cage where I keep the 8 month old.They did not bother each other and could not get to each other. The larger enclosur is 4 and a half feet tall and about 2 and a half wide and 2 and a half deep. I have four live plants in the cage. All of which were included on the safe plant list. I did wash all of them off in the shower for quite some time prior to puting them into the habitat. I purchased lighting from Light your reptiles.com I have the 5.o UVB and 65 k. They are both 2 foot T5 bulbs. I also have a 150 wat heat bulb that is about 6 inches above the cage.
The night before he died I split bamboo like you would cut carrots into carrot sticks. ( in order to make the bamboo smaller like he was ) I made an elaborite looking little jungle gym out of the bamboo sticks and hot glue. I then glued some plastic leaves around the outside of it so he would feal hidden and placed his new jungle gym on top of some other fake foliage. When I last saw him, he was sleeping on a leaf, showing some blue and resting peacefully.
I turned off the lights. AT 10:30 Or 11 oclock.. No draft in the house. and my thermostat was set at 71 degrees.
6:00 this morning he was dead.
at this point I had him in my posetion for less than 3 days, I had held him one time, just long enough to transfer him from a bowl to his cricket keeper.
I have listed everything as accuratelly as I can in the hopes of learning my mistake.
What did I do wrong?
