PardalisGirl
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Howdy all.........been going crazy here treating a bunch of new imports for parasites and getting them acclimated. My oldest female Veiled, Olive, decided tried to push me over the brink into insanity this week as well. I have 1.3 Veileds. Olive is the oldest female and wild caught like my pissy male. She was gravid, and for the last week, she paced her cage constantly. She kept digging tunnels in the big nest container I had in her cage. Then she would give up and pace some more. She was spewing the substrate up into the air and out into the cage as she dug like no chameleon I've ever had. It was everywhere.
Yesterday I got tired of this and put her into a tall trash can. I let her be alone for the day. Last night I checked on her and she looked thin again and was just calmly hanging out in the trash can. At first I found a group of seven big eggs buried in one bottom corner of the trash can. I was thinking "Wow, that isn't a very big clutch!" Then I found another group of fifteen big eggs buried in another corner of the trash can. So Olive laid a total of twenty-two huge eggs in two separate areas.
The eggs are huge, much bigger than I expected. They are bigger than almost all the Panther eggs that I have gotten. I guess her body produced size rather than quantity for some reason. I know others from this group have gotten large numbers of eggs in Veiled clutches. I have been wondering if the fact that she grew up into an adult out in nature eating all the natural insects, etc. changed how this first clutch turned out for her. Nature gets full credit for her maturing into a healthy adult for sure. I think this must effect the formation of the egg follicals that later become fertilized in captivity.
Anyway, I got a much needed bit of satisfaction from Olive's week long endeavor. In November I lost another Veiled female after one string of eggs in her body (they have two) rotted and caused a fatal septic condition. The other string of eggs was not rotted, but not near full formation. I tried to incubate them, but they went bad within a month.
My other two female Veileds are younger and have a bit of maturing to do. One is Clingy, who was hatched by Ren from this group. She is a total sweetie pie and beautifully formed. She's lucky that my male who is totally mean and pissy with me, is very gentle and easy going with females of the Veiled variety.
Well, got to go clean up some lizard doo doo............
Yesterday I got tired of this and put her into a tall trash can. I let her be alone for the day. Last night I checked on her and she looked thin again and was just calmly hanging out in the trash can. At first I found a group of seven big eggs buried in one bottom corner of the trash can. I was thinking "Wow, that isn't a very big clutch!" Then I found another group of fifteen big eggs buried in another corner of the trash can. So Olive laid a total of twenty-two huge eggs in two separate areas.
The eggs are huge, much bigger than I expected. They are bigger than almost all the Panther eggs that I have gotten. I guess her body produced size rather than quantity for some reason. I know others from this group have gotten large numbers of eggs in Veiled clutches. I have been wondering if the fact that she grew up into an adult out in nature eating all the natural insects, etc. changed how this first clutch turned out for her. Nature gets full credit for her maturing into a healthy adult for sure. I think this must effect the formation of the egg follicals that later become fertilized in captivity.
Anyway, I got a much needed bit of satisfaction from Olive's week long endeavor. In November I lost another Veiled female after one string of eggs in her body (they have two) rotted and caused a fatal septic condition. The other string of eggs was not rotted, but not near full formation. I tried to incubate them, but they went bad within a month.
My other two female Veileds are younger and have a bit of maturing to do. One is Clingy, who was hatched by Ren from this group. She is a total sweetie pie and beautifully formed. She's lucky that my male who is totally mean and pissy with me, is very gentle and easy going with females of the Veiled variety.
Well, got to go clean up some lizard doo doo............
