help needed with panther mating

[rullom]

Hi all, I am having some problems with some ambanjia mating. The female keeps flaring up. Should I leave her with the male anyway or what.....? Is there a good technique to getting them to mate? They are both captive bread and of mating age. Will the female not mate if she is producing infertile eggs? Please send any comments to rullom@mcmaster.ca

Thanks

[kinyonga]

You said that they are of mating age....I don't know what you consider mating age....but I never mate a female panther chameleon until she is at least a year of age. I like to make sure they are done growing their own bones before I put egg production demands on their calcium levels.

If the female is flaring up then she is already producing eggs or she isn't receptive/ready. Leaving them together when she is behaving like that is only asking for trouble. I would remove her and try again in a few days.

Sometimes panther chameleons that have not been bred and might be working on infertile eggs will still mate....but if she's interested in mating, she will behave in a receptive way and not flare up at the male.

Once you get her timing figured out for the first time, you will be able to figure out when to mate her (when she will likely be receptive).

Good luck!

[Collide]

if the female is not receptive there isent much u can do but wait till the right time, as for a male shoing him to another panther or to a mirror can make him think there is another male present and increase his willingness to breed, I havent breed panthers this is just info that i have heard works.

[galad]

I too am having some problems with my nosy be's.

Just something that takes alot of patience. What I would like to know is when the breeding season starts and ends. I've been slowly moving my light times back up to 14 hour days. This should stimulate breeding should it not?

peace

ws

[kinyonga]

Different morphs of panther chameleons breed different numbers of times a year and ones in captivity breed differently than ones in the wild. You can read about it in this site....
http://ADCHAM.com/html/taxonomy/species/fpardalis.html