Needing some pointers on (Nosey Be Panther) care

[PorschaLei]

I currently have a nine month old Nosey Be Panther Cham. My set up is a 18x18x36 screen setup, with a small-med branch and exo-terra jungle vine. A picture of my setup is below. The breeder told me he's been mainly eating mealworms and crickets. But reading the care sheet mealworms are not the best. As for gut load I am using zilla right now. Is that decent enough? This morning he ate 5 crickets and I left to school there were 8 mealworms in the dish I do not know if he finished them off. I also have a question with lighting I was told he needed a 75-80 ambient and 95 for basking. Right now I believe I have between 70-73 ambient I haven't purchased additional thermometers yet but I do not have a correct temp for basking right now. I am also manually misting, an will be purchasing a humidifier today after I get out of class. I would like some feed back on how to improve setup and possibly some gut load advice. I also wanted to ask which supplement brands you guys prefer. I am also looking into adding a live plant, any one plant panthers favor more than others or does it not matter. Thanks for reading and sorry for the overly newbie questions. I just want to make sure this little guy is fully comfortable and remains in stable good health.

The bowl on the bottom is a meal worm bowl but I think it was a useless by right now

 

[Chameleons09]

I would suggest more branches horizontally for him to walk on and more plants as well for hiding.

 

[PorschaLei]

I would suggest more branches horizontally for him to walk on and more plants as well for hiding.

Would artifical climbing vines be ok, I am looking into purchasing those

 

[Kaianuanu]

Your cage just needs more in general, I personally am a huge proponent of live plants over fake. Two good species to be your main plant in the cage are Ficus benjamina and Schefflera arboricola. Also, be very careful with your supplementation, it is easy to overdose a Cham on vitamins, I killed my first Cham this way(also a noy be) by following the breeders directions, read up on supplement schedules on here. Post some pics of him too.

 

[Kaianuanu]

Here's my cage, it has all real vines, branches, and plants. It should give you some ideas.

EDIT: if you're gone at school most of the day, you'd probably benefit from a dripper.

 

[sulley]

a Ficus benjamina in the middle would look great.i have one and they look lovely.more pathways either bamboo or vines.take a look on the enclosure thread your get some great ideas on there. just go mad and make a jungle

 

[sulley]

Here's my cage, it has all real vines, branches, and plants. It should give you some ideas.

EDIT: if you're gone at school most of the day, you'd probably benefit from a dripper.

looks very nice

 

[Kaianuanu]

looks very nice

Thanks also for the OP, you ambient temps look fine, but, many recommend that you keep you basking temp below 90.

 

[carol5208]

what the others have said and you should have a sturdy basking vine or branch about 8 inches directly under basking light.

 

[PorschaLei]

Thanks also for the OP, you ambient temps look fine, but, many recommend that you keep you basking temp

@kaianuanu: your setup is wonderful.

Thanks, I will be looking into a ficus, are there any that stay small, my dad has one but its pretty huge. Also can anyone direct me to the proper prep for taking branches from the wild, I know you have to bake them but I am very unsure but would love to take some fallen branches from the parks etc.
sorry I forgot to post picture of him meet Pat

I have a few other pictures on my phone that I will post soon

 

[Kaianuanu]

If you harvest live branches from the trees, you will be a lot better off, I just rinse them off I'm the hose first. Usually though, baking is needed to kill stuff in in dead wood that has been rotting.

Also, you Cham looks a lot like an ambanja, I personally would be suspicious of this. Possibly the dad was a nosy be but the mother was am ambanja. Still looks great though!

 

[PorschaLei]

If you harvest live branches from the trees, you will be a lot better off, I just rinse them off I'm the hose first. Usually though, baking is needed to kill stuff in in dead wood that has been rotting.

Also, you Cham looks a lot like an ambanja, I personally would be suspicious of this. Possibly the dad was a nosy be but the mother was am ambanja. Still looks great though!

Thanks, he was a cross, but they used color reference red blue cross. The breeder said Nosey be. It could be possible this happened. Ok I will be getting some branches, there's a snow storm brewing in today (yuck) so I'm going to see if I can pluck some off before it blows in

 

[sulley]

pat looks great.loving his colours coming through.

 

[PorschaLei]

pat looks great.loving his colours coming through.

Thanks I can wait til he gets his full vibrant adult colors. He's really fun, plus he was handled a lot and is pretty calm. I just need to by calcium today and Calcium w/ D3 if I'm not mistaken. I know calcium has to be given every day but D3 how often do you need to give this?

 

[Kaianuanu]

Thanks I can wait til he gets his full vibrant adult colors. He's really fun, plus he was handled a lot and is pretty calm. I just need to by calcium today and Calcium w/ D3 if I'm not mistaken. I know calcium has to be given every day but D3 how often do you need to give this?

Usually people administer the D3 twice a month, and then the multivitamin twice a month, alternating weeks. Also, rep-cal w/D3 has an astronomical amount of D3, I'd steer clear of it and get repashy SuperCal HyD.

 

[Jon114]

He looks a bit dehydrated judging from his eye turrets. Or is that just me?

 

[PorschaLei]

Usually people administer the D3 twice a month, and then the multivitamin twice a month, alternating weeks. Also, rep-cal w/D3 has an astronomical amount of D3, I'd steer clear of it and get repashy SuperCal HyD.

Ok thanks for the advice, I will steer clear of rep-cal.
@Jon114 I've only have him for about a day or so. I've been doing manual misting using a spray bottle but I do not have a drip system yet.

 

[Kaianuanu]

He looks a bit dehydrated judging from his eye turrets. Or is that just me?

I think your right, not severely dehydrated, but he could probably use a shower session.

 

[PorschaLei]

I think your right, not severely dehydrated, but he could probably use a shower session.

These pictures were taken yesterday, this morning he was misted as well, as this afternoon while I am in class and will again be done this evening I will take newer pictures tonight hopefully there will be progress.

 

[ReptileLove18]

did you get the links i posted on your first thread about feeders and gutloading?

oh and this is the link to her first post from earlier if anyone is interested!
https://www.chameleonforums.com/hello-everyone-new-here-106183/