Can I keep it?
Setup
The numbers
Temperature
The sheet gives a night figure only: 18–21°C. No daytime range is stated.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet statesbasking 29-32 °C (85-90 °F) / night 18-21 °C
Humidity
The sheet states50-60% day, 75-100% night (mist)
UVB
The sheet statesT5 5–6% + bright 6500K lamp; replace ~6 mo
Narrower than the page we cite. The source we cite, read on 10 Aug 2026, gives a wider range than the one above. The narrowing is ours and nobody here has written down why. reptifiles.com
Drag the sun. Panther Chameleon is Diurnal, so what it is doing changes with the light. The sheet states a night temperature, and the rail follows it.
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.
Why
The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».
The sheet states60 × 60 × 120 cm screen (males)
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.
- Screen enclosure 60×60×120
- T5 UVB + 6500K + basking
- Dripper + mister/fogger
- Vines & foliage
- Lay bin (♀)
- Calcium + D3 + multivit
- Gut-loaded feeders
Food
Diet
Daily life
Behaviour and handling
Health
Common health problems
When to see a vet
This is not veterinary advice. If red flags appear, consult a qualified exotic (herp) veterinarian. Quarantine new arrivals 30–90 days.
Red flags
- open-mouth breathing
- months of weight loss
- stargazing
- persistent regurgitation
The species
Identity
Adult size
True scale, against a 1.75 m person
Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet
The size the sheet states for a grown animal. This sheet gives a figure per sex; the one drawn is marked.
Why
Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.
How common this animal is
Relative Google search interest for the species as a pet, 2020. The scale is relative within the study: 100 is the most searched reptile it measured, not a count of animals. Reptiles only, and only the species the study measured. An absent value means the study did not measure that species, not that nobody keeps it.
Valdez JW (2021), Using Google Trends to Determine Current, Past, and Future Trends in the Reptile Pet Trade, Animals 11(3):676
NOT a measure of how many are kept. These filings count animals shipped for any purpose, including the food trade and laboratory supply, and they are United States records only. The three largest volumes in the source belong to a food frog, a bait species and the standard laboratory amphibian.
US Fish and Wildlife Service LEMIS declared wildlife import and export records, as compiled in the received dataset
Reproduction
Life course
Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.
Why
The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own.
Good to know
- The most colorful chameleon: color depends on locality (Ambilobe red, Nosy Be blue).
- Males are far more vivid than females.
- Fires a tongue over 1.5× its body length in a fraction of a second.
- The most colorful chameleon — color depends on locality (Ambilobe red, Nosy Be blue).
The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.
CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.
Questions & sources
Common questions
Which locality is best?
Care is the same: color & price differ.
Can I handle it?
Look-don't-touch display pet.
Beginner-friendly?
Demanding: precise hydration & UVB.
Going deeper
Research dossier: read at the source, not yet cross-checked by our team. Every figure links to the page it was read on.
In the wild
Natural history
Life history
Peer reviewed field life historytandfonline.com
Natural diet
Specialist husbandryreptifiles.com
Breeding
Reproduction deep
Peer reviewed experimentalpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Light and food: the evidence
Diet supplementation
Housing through life
Enclosure geometry
Male min in
Female min in
https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/furcifer-pardalis
Photographed by observers on Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.
Others in this group
What this sheet states
Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.