Don't buy wild caught unless your entire goal is to buy many pairs of them and breed them to establish CBB in the hobby. It is not worth it at all otherwise. Wild caught lats tend to die very easily (notoriously die quickly) and aren't a good choice if you want pets or haven't dealt with wild...
Yes, I have produced >150 of them. Tim and Frank are great keepers that are certainly worth consulting on lateralis care, and who have kept more individuals than I think anyone else. What info are you looking for in particular?
Mycobacteria (the bacteria genus that TB (human, cow etc. versions) is a part of) is somewhat host specific as far as actual disease manifestation. However, they can be present in a wide variety of organisms, just won't usually cause clinically apparent infection. There are few records of it...
Below is the most comprehensive brookesia care article that I am aware of. It is focused on brookesia thieli. However the care can be somewhat similar to B. superciliaris and therezieni. It requires a subscription to Responsible herpetoculture to read though-a great organization that does good...
For those interested in working with/breeding smaller species, here are some size comparison photos. Not the best photographer but, perhaps this will give a sense of scale. First is a newly hatched veiled, then 1 week old Trioceros Ellioti, 1 week old Calumma Linotum, just hatched furcifer...
I’m not the OP, but this is a nearly fully grown furcifer lateralis that had most of her tail amputated. As active as any others and doing well! So amputation or loss of tail is not a death sentence.
I'd bet money that that embryo died-what you describe is classic for a would-be hatchling getting close to hatching but having some defect or problem that prevents it from emerging, leading to death and shrinking of the egg after the egg windowing (the lighter somewhat transparent patch). I have...