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If you live in an area where West Nile occurs, it may be a risk. Last time I looked it up, which was a year ago, I read of some zoos that were worried about their outdoor alligators. A more current Googling shows some captive USA reptiles have been infected...

I agree, Megana's annual weight arc will tell you a lot about her inner workings. That's how I've tracked my female melleri over the years. The weights in the 4-5 months following the gravid months are the neutral. Well, it's a whole lot easier process for Akia, passing small infertiles...

all good After lights out, I opened the chamroom door and saw Akia green and roosting high up in her cage. Whew. I put her in the shower and excavated 43 eggs from her nest. A handful were stirred up at the top of the nest, but most of them were safely at the very bottom of the can. After...

Hey Joe, look on the door frame of the enclsoure pic.:) I wonder if it backfired and she saw me peek at her, or move past it?

The female, at the beginning, is committed to the same amount of raw materials for her side of the deal, whether or not a male contributes. The difference in melleri is that some can reabsorb their infertiles and bypass the gestation and nesting hassle. At what point this occurs is hard to pin...

Totally strange, this one was raised with the camera from day one! I also took pix of her dam laying eggs and she was fine with it. I've seen pix of WC melleri laying in captivity, it doesn't stop them. Have to let gravids have their quirks, I suppose! I have tried to keep the house quiet all...

No, she did not scratch the screen, just climbed it as part of her roaming. I'm seeing something I've not seen before. Either she has decided that I/the camera disturbed her nesting process (that one pic where she sees the camera) and she has to start over, or she really did disapprove of...

That is good to know, Patrick, thank you! I have seen compressed eggs pop back to round in incubation, but it may be coincidence that the few I've seen were also infertiles. You have given me a hope! It would be great if these turned out to be fertile. Her mate was a handsome guy.

12:39 (:44 by forum clock) She has started to bury them with her back legs. She lays very small numbers because I intentionally keep her on a maintenance diet. Judging by her max weight gain this year, it should be 10-20 eggs total. Thanks, Justin! It will be nice to have my...

50 minutes later She is already laying her eggs! Unfortunately, she's giving the camera stink-eye, I hope she's not disturbed. I don't even look, I just sneak the camera over the top edge and click, then sneak away. The visible eggs look compressed, so I'm guessing this wasn't a...

Don't know if she is fertilized for certain, but these pix are for owners of all those CB aunts and uncles out there.:D She has been driving me mad this week with pacing and basking and eating and drinking and pacing. She "said" none of the huge plant pots would do this year, even...

Clarifying: This is an animal that has had two clean fecals, and who has passed undigested food. It is just now getting fenbendazole for the first time. Yes, it is possible to get two clean fecals and the third be a bloom of worm oocysts. They have cycles, oocysts are not in constant supply...

Have you ruled out the babies' UVB bulb output, with a UVB meter? I recently received a brand new bulb that was defective, not producing adequate UVB.

Which thing did you start him on? It's not a blockage I am thinking of, but of rather bad parasite infestations that can cause such damage to the intestinal lining that the food just sloops on through. Inflammation (maybe scar tissue? any vets here today?) might be noticeable in ultrasound...

Ummm, you are IN the subforum for Melleri right now. The CH thread in this subforum is what I meant, it's running parallel to this CB thread. You know, I'm just giddy over here that there are so many CH and CB in the world right now, and that we can all share pix and track their progress...

lol Sounds like they have to work for it, Chuck, that's good! Suzanne, I was thinking about it- and that is the first melleri prolapse I can recall hearing or reading about. I wonder if they rarely prolapse because they have so much natural gel lubrication, as chameleons go...?

Bowl feeding can make feeding too easy on them. Mine had competition for their bowls, that kept them fit, lol! Do you slow them down at around 6 months, or at 3 months? There is another old cautionary experience of a melleri being grown too fast. A keeper raised a CB baby to 500g+ within its...

Great progression shots, Suzanne! These two threads will be endless eyecandy!

Hi Andrew, Isn't yours one from Mike's CH clutches (Chad and JeweledC had them for sale)? We have a CH thread rolling in this subforum, if you'd like to post it over there. Nice size on this one!

September 08 Once again, the MD has some new updates. For those with babies growing, there is a (house) Fly Feeder Tutorial. It's short, it's easy to make, and it's enrichment for your baby chameleons. The Breeding page has a pic of melleri embryos, back by popular demand. Kidding. But it...