Ok Ono my vield had eggs bout three weeks ago. She laid 45 eggs it was her first clutch and I got them out quickly put them in vermecilite and put them in an incubator at around 78-79 degrees. But as I'm doing more research online the eggs I'm seeing look really bigger!! Any advice or help understanding this? My eggs are tiny compared to the ones I'm seeing there not decaying or anything I don't think but they are getting a light lght brown? Any an all advice would help
Egg size
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Miss Lily
Chameleon Enthusiast
As it's her first clutch, I am presuming that she hasn't been mated. If she hasn't then they will be infertile. They are sometimes more yellow and smaller than fertile eggs. They will shrivel and dry up after a while. I don't know how long it takes for this as i have always just thrown any infertile eggs away as I knew they had not been fertilised.
Well the thing is she was with a male in a huge enclosure and that's how they were kept but the guy I got them from never really seen them lock up but he was pretty sure they had cuz they were all over each other for awhile!! So I got told by some other members to just incubate them anyway non have shrivelled up or even got darker at all though there just super small!!!!!
Miss Lily
Chameleon Enthusiast
Well if it's possible they are fertile, do as others suggest and incubate them. I think they swell over time to accommodate the hatchling inside, so they may not grow much yet. I am no expert though as I have never had a cham lay fertile eggs, so have no comparison to make.
When the eggs are laid, fertile ones will be whiter and bigger than infertile ones will (in veiled chameleons). The clutch could contain both fertile and infertile ones. I always incubate all the eggs that are laid because its easy enough to remove the infertile ones and any that fail as you go along. Veiled eggs grow to be as big as a good sized grape by the time they are ready to hatch.
