If your adult is in a screen cage and your humidity is below 40 percent overnight, plan a hybrid PVC migration before next summer.
Screen versus glass, revisited for 2026.
The hobby keeps relitigating screen versus glass. The honest answer in 2026 is that hybrid PVC won the argument for adults; screen still wins for juveniles.
A juvenile under six months benefits from screen because the metabolism is still calibrating and screen forgives small humidity overshoots. An adult benefits from hybrid PVC because the gradient is more controllable and the animal has the metabolic stability to handle a tighter envelope.
Glass remains wrong for adults in nearly every climate. We have not seen a configuration of glass aquarium that produces stable adult husbandry outcomes for panthers in the last decade. We do not anticipate one.
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
Tightening screen tension on a year-old cage.
After twelve months of misting cycles and live plant weight, screen panels sag in ways that quietly compromise climbing surfaces.
Building a Ferguson Zone 3 UVI gradient.
Panthers want a UVI gradient running from roughly 0 in the deep canopy to 4 at the basking spot. The fixture choice and mounting matter more than the bulb brand.
Why we weigh every juvenile every Wednesday.
Grams do not lie. A juvenile that is gaining is a juvenile that is about to colour up. A flat week is the earliest signal you will get.