Looks good! If it starts to shrivel like a raisin, check the moisture (and add some water to the vermiculite). You can also raise the temp to 78-80deg if you want to speed up hatching
Our female was born from an egg laid exactly a year ago and this weekend she laid her first clutch. 49 eggs. I felt so proud. I’m hoping they are not fertile because there’s no way I’m raising so many babies!
Yes, I got ten eggs. About a month after I got them I noticed the eggs collapsing. Turned out the vermiculite was too dry even though the humidity meter said the Tupperware was 99%. I added 10ml water to the corner of the Tupperware and within three days five eggs reinflated to pearly white...
So in love with our little clutch of veiled chameleons, just hatched. Laid in January. Shipped from Iowa to the East Coast in March, incubated at 99% humidity and 78-84F in a home made incubator (old small cooler, aquarium heater, brick, water, Tupperware, thermometer, vermiculite). Many thanks...
Yes poor zim is in very rough shape— we just installed a generator and solar panels in my aunts house there because there’s no power anymore, food is very scarce.
It was interesting when I went back in 1996 to teach high school, I had a pet chameleon for a while and the kids at the school...
I work with all kinds of mammals at work, and have canaries and rats as pets at home. I would love to get a flapneck, just ‘cause it’s familiar, but I’m keen to get any kind of eggs that I could try hatch myself. Which animals are you actively breeding?
Oh: I’m in the Washington DC area...but born in Zimbabwe. We moved to Canada when I was a kid—Ottawa, then the Vancouver Area, then Montreal—then I moved back to Zimbabwe after university, and now I’m in the US. Not that you asked for all of it, but I was tickled to see you’re Canadian (or at...
I work a lot with animals and had chameleons when I was a child (I grew up in Zimbabwe, ours were the flapneck chameleon)...so I think I should be able to hatch them (at least I’d like to try, and will be glad for the help/support of chameleonforum!)
Jann very kindly provided me with four, but they were not fertile and molded over (the ones she kept from this batch also were bad). So I’m back looking.