Mario Vermunt
Member
I wasn't allowed yet to post in the Parsonii part since i am pretty new here, so that why i do it here.
I read in that part, that people might not want to share data, i thinks thats not the case, there actually are only a few breeders, thats just why theres not much info, but certainly there are breeders.
To share some data
1)Problem i had last year males not wanting to mate (i know more people had that), i kept them colder last winter 12 degrees celsius for months, they get brown almost black coloured then, looks strange to do whit such an precious animal but it worked, they breeded much better this year.
2) One thing which sounds strange from general chameleon husbandry but which is really important looking to the people who have succes with Parsonii is keeping males and females together for months at least spring till succesfull mating.
Just introducing the female to the male for a day or two will mostly not work.
They have shy sexlives and the ritual takes weeks till the male mounts.
After succesfull mounting, my males stopped trying to mount (as is not with other species)
I am partially lucky i now have 50 eggs incubating since a few weeks from my first 2 females, thought the bad part 1 died, she developed pseudomonas 2 months after mating and made her get to weak.
A friend of mine also has 30 eggs from the mating with one of my males.
3) Moulding eggs
Many clutches of Parsons (maybe alomost all?) after few weeks mould start to develop on the eggs. Also on these 3 clutches that starts happening. In general ofcourse this feels bad, but i do know that even from Parsonii eggs which had mould appearing on, even succesfull hatching has occured!
Whit experimenting i found that the mould goes away by putting the eggs under the vermiculti instead of partially open to the air. (In general incubating under vermiculite i found to be much better, then half burried)
Any tips (or hypothesis) on this matter are very welcome...
Kind regards,
Mario
I read in that part, that people might not want to share data, i thinks thats not the case, there actually are only a few breeders, thats just why theres not much info, but certainly there are breeders.
To share some data
1)Problem i had last year males not wanting to mate (i know more people had that), i kept them colder last winter 12 degrees celsius for months, they get brown almost black coloured then, looks strange to do whit such an precious animal but it worked, they breeded much better this year.
2) One thing which sounds strange from general chameleon husbandry but which is really important looking to the people who have succes with Parsonii is keeping males and females together for months at least spring till succesfull mating.
Just introducing the female to the male for a day or two will mostly not work.
They have shy sexlives and the ritual takes weeks till the male mounts.
After succesfull mounting, my males stopped trying to mount (as is not with other species)
I am partially lucky i now have 50 eggs incubating since a few weeks from my first 2 females, thought the bad part 1 died, she developed pseudomonas 2 months after mating and made her get to weak.
A friend of mine also has 30 eggs from the mating with one of my males.
3) Moulding eggs
Many clutches of Parsons (maybe alomost all?) after few weeks mould start to develop on the eggs. Also on these 3 clutches that starts happening. In general ofcourse this feels bad, but i do know that even from Parsonii eggs which had mould appearing on, even succesfull hatching has occured!
Whit experimenting i found that the mould goes away by putting the eggs under the vermiculti instead of partially open to the air. (In general incubating under vermiculite i found to be much better, then half burried)
Any tips (or hypothesis) on this matter are very welcome...
Kind regards,
Mario
Can you post some pictures here please! 
