Chemeleon eggs Sweating?

[ChameleonLover4Life]

So I am a first time chameleon breeder and have a clutch that is about 7 months old. Three of them looked like they had started to sweat but then stopped and are now dry. I wasn't sure if this was normal for them to stop sweating or not. Also I had researched that the eggs should then start to hatch 4 days to a week after? I wasn't sure as I had also heard that it could take up to 2 weeks.

 

[kinyonga]

Did they shrink in size when sweating too?

 

[ChameleonLover4Life]

No they did not

 

[kinyonga]

They should have shrunk. Did you have a lid on the incubator the whole time during incubation including the time after the sweating?

 

[ChameleonLover4Life]

No they have not shrunken in size. They seem to sweat and then stop and then sweat again. I have had a lid on the whole time throughout incubation and it is still on. I have them in a glad container in a dark drawer at around 73 degrees. They have started to window as well.

 

[kinyonga]

Hopefully they will be OK. They look good in the photo.

 

[ChameleonLover4Life]

Alright thank you for your time and help.

 

[kinyonga]

Keep us posted.

Normally the eggs sweat and shrink and the hatchling splits one end of the egg in an x shape and usually puts it's head out. It will then lay like that for a while and then climb out of the egg.

 

[NHenn]

You should be fine. When they start to sweat it will be very obvious and there will be a lot more moisture coming out of the egg which in turn will cause it to shrink. You are close to hatching but not there just yet.

 

[riri6789]

They hatched!!!!

 

[kinyonga]

Nice! How many hatched?

 

[#Chams4life]

All of them a total of 21

 

[riri6789]

All of them a total of 21

Yep! All of them little stinkers

 

[kinyonga]

Nice!

 

[Tjlooney]

I know this is old but I've been having the sweating then drying thing for a month now. Now another is sweating and shrinking a ton. I'm so hoping to get babies soon. This is encouraging and I've looked all over but could never find quite what I was looking for. IE sweating then going dry and sweating again thing. Glad to know I'm not alone.

 

[Tjlooney]

See how much smaller it is! Yay lol. Soon I think.

 

[salty dog]

strange pattern.. mine sweat shrink & hatch all in a vew days....in my experience...congrats!!