6 month egg hatched

[Camaleoides]

Hi all, I am new to this forum. I am from Mexico City and have been working with chameleons since 1998.

I have a clutch of 14 eggs incubating at 80°F and a 2-3° drop at night since January 14th.

Three weeks ago a found a hatchling completely devolped out of its egg. It was a very tiny cham but generally it looked fine. It started eating at the third day and seemed to be doing fine but sudenly died yesterday.

I would like to figure out why this one hatched so prematurely. Any guess?

 

[Camaleoides]

Sorry, I forgot to mention it is Pather Chameleon eggs

 

[trd1215]

Hi all, I am new to this forum. I am from Mexico City and have been working with chameleons since 1998.

I have a clutch of 14 eggs incubating at 80°F and a 2-3° drop at night since January 14th.

Three weeks ago a found a hatchling completely devolped out of its egg. It was a very tiny cham but generally it looked fine. It started eating at the third day and seemed to be doing fine but sudenly died yesterday.

I would like to figure out why this one hatched so prematurely. Any guess?

Are the eggs 6 months or 7 months? What were you feeding him/her? Maybe the food was too large...

 

[Camaleoides]

The egg was 6 month by the hatch date.

I was feeding the hatchling with fruit flies and pinhead crickets