Introducing: Wiley the Ambanja

[Reddishboy]

This is Wiley; he's about 4 months old. I've had him 3 weeks and am keeping him in a free range setup with numerous large plants (lemon, avocado, pomegranate, ficus) and a 175w MH 6500K bulb with reptisun 5.0 UVB to supplement the UV spectrum.

He'll take bugs offered straight from my hands and I've been slowly shaping him to walk onto my hand before shooting the bug out of my other- to get him socialized to me. With lots of tasty, gut loaded variety of feeders and his tremendous food motivation its fairly easy- but hard to be patient and slow moving enough for Wileys comfort. Struggling to get him to drink from pipette consistently so am using a dripper (from a rigged up IV bag!).

Any other folks in New England keeping panthers?? Rare feeders (katydids, mantids, grn banana roaches, stick bugs)?? I'm hoping to get some ghost mantids soon.

 

[tony19]

Wow vary nice set up you got there. Awesome colour on your cham to

 

[craig90]

Nice colours coming in already!

 

[qdude46]

Looks great and welcome to he forums! Is he sired by any panther from the sponsors?

 

[Reddishboy]

Thanks for the complements! (On Wiley's behalf)

qdude46 -- No his sire wasn't one of the sponsor's chams.. I found him on fauna classifieds from a small/informal breeder from florida who isn't on Chamforums. I think he was the 'would-be holdback'- his siblings didn't have the orangish coloration on the eye turrets or belly. I don't know his lineage. I kinda wish he was Boomer or some other screaming ambanja's offspring but here's hoping he keeps up the bright work!