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If I've "been lucky", I've "been lucky" nine times, (three times in the past week), none of my females look any worst for it. To me eating sand (if indeed that was what she was doing) is a sign that either she was looking for food and ate some sand or she is in need of more calcium. A female...

You say that you can not gut load these worm. If these are moro worm, you can gut load them easily.

Maybe she needs more live food? If the chameleon is only four months that's too early for interest in egg laying and I would personally remove the sand. I would increase her live food and put generous dusting of calcium powder (I use bone aid) with every feed.

I have veiled chameleons. And five sexually mature females. I would take the sand out of her enclosure if you're worried. Place the sand into a deep plastic or rubber bin near her enclosure. I would half-fill with sand and lightly dampen it. I would place a heat source with light (I use a...

Not fully. Why shouldn't play sand be ingested and also cause compaction injury? What is the ingredients that make play sand better?

Can anyone offer any insight into why play-sand makes for better substrate than silver-sand other than on price and availability? Also Soft builder's sand allows for easy tunneling it's sticky when damp so what's wrong with that?

Mated females with fertile eggs are less prone to egg-binding problems.

Well (without vet cover) if your pets get sick and require something that you cant do yourself (seems most things with chameleons) then you'd better have deep pockets or be prepared to watch the animal(s) suffer.

My last two chameleons to lay eggs did over one-hundred and forty (140) eggs with one doing seventy-six. I mated mine early in their lives. Mine were born mid October 2009 and each has had a clutch and two, two clutches. Each clutch has been over fifty. I dispose of the eggs as I soon realized...

I posted this on another thread but it also seems appropriate here. My last two chameleons to lay eggs did over one-hundred and forty (140) eggs with one doing seventy-six. I mated mine early in their lives. Mine were born mid October 2009 and each has had a clutch (that's 5 females) and two...

My last two chameleons to lay eggs did over one-hundred and forty (140) eggs with one doing seventy-six. I mated mine early in their lives. Mine were born mid October 2009 and each has had a clutch and two, two clutches. Each clutch has been over fifty. I dispose of the eggs as I soon realized...

I have seen this happen (eye enlarging and animal rubbing) and was alarmed at first. Yet it went down almost immediately. In my experience do not use chlorinated water direct use a conditioner to remove it. Do not over do the misting don't mist directly at the animal use a water dripper for...

Sorry but shipping to your location in the world would be very costly and (probably) difficult, as I live in England, UK.

I have so far disposed of over two hundred fertile 'good' eggs (and will be destroying another 200+ shortly) because I can not be certain to find people willing to buy and take care of veiled chameleons. With the number (of chameleons) I have, currently numbering a dozen, I simply cannot have...

Thanks for the swift reply. You mention impactions but it's not going to be eating, the chameleon is solely concerned with depositing her eggs eating surely, would be the last thing on her mind anyway there is no food in the nesting area. Another thing is in the wild the area they dig in to...