Well, you need a bin, adult crickets, and egg laying containers. We have tried several different mixtures and we currently use a mix of peat moss and play sand at about 1-1.5" thick, I would say our mixture is prob 80/sand 20/peat moss, and it needs to be very moist. Keep the egg laying...
Don't think I have ever seen up close a chameleons hemipenis, but when we sex our ball pythons we have to force the hemipenis out of the vent and it sounds like that is what you where seeing, but that's only from experience in sexing pythons, so I could be wrong. As far as washing the plants, we...
She certainly looks gravid to me, that's the coloration I was talking about. They never cease to amaze me how they can show so much in their altering pigment, just amazing.
If she is inseminated her coloration will usually be the best indicator, a typical inseminated or gravid female will display a very dark almost black or dark brown background with nice yellow and green, sometimes light blue spotting, the coloration doesn't always stay through out her pregnancy...