I don't consider a jackson's a good beginner cham due to their cooler temp and humidity requirements. Depending on your climate and house, keeping a jax healthy in summer (too hot at night), winter (too dry due to house heat) can be more work and take more to set up correctly. Unless you are experienced in detecting subtle signs of dehydration, a jax may get in trouble before you realize. Also, many jax on the market are wc, not cbb, so you have to deal with capture, holding facility stress, etc.



I would not put an adult panther into that size cage. Yes, it might survive, but it wouldn't have much of a life either and might get frustrated and stressed and you could lose it anyway.



Jax may be described as more "docile" to handling, but this doesn't mean they tolerate it well. They are gentler in nature, but show their stress in different ways than an aggressive veiled might. You CAN overhandle any cham, so it is better to treat them as a look-but-not-touch animal generally.

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