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my panther recently died after 2 1/2 years.. i tried my best with him but he ended up having worms(they came out of his mouth after he died) i just wanna know how he got them.. was it a parasite he already had or something i did?

Because they are insectivores almost all chams will have some parasites during their lives. Was yours cbb or wc? Unless you have a vet analyze a fecal sample as part of a routine health check you may not have known if he had a large population or not. A healthy cham can handle some parasite load and it is almost impossible (or necessary) to get rid of every single one. Some types are more dangerous than others. Most likely there was some other health problem going on that suppressed his immune response and allowed the parasite load to increase over what he could normally tolerate. Without a necropsy you'll never know. Sorry you lost him.

i was told he was cb when i got him.. although he was my first panther i have owned many veileds/jacksons and never had a problem like that. also the fact that this decides to happen 2 1/2 years after i get him is strange too.. there was about a week or two that i got really lazy feeding him but then i always feel bad so i got him a live plant(ficus) and fed him regularly after that he really seemed fine until the last day.. poor guy