Eggs, Carla's Story

[ChameleonNerd]

My female veiled, Carla has been overweight for quite a while, around 170 grams. she was like that for months. i figured she was gravid so i put a laying bin in her enclosure, and she never utilized it.

Fast forward - in the past 3 weeks, her eating has slowed down to almost a standstill. Tuesday she was brought to the vet, and deemed perfectly healthy, no parasites, no eggs. Early this morning, Saturday, i woke up and guess whose digging a hole to china? Carla.

I exchanged her shallow test laying bin for the full sized bin, and within 10 minutes of the exchange, she began digging. I left the house to go to my uncle's house and just returned about a half hour ago to find her passed out on top of the sand, having covered her hole.

I weighed her and she had lost 49 grams. I excavated her laying bin, and i found 53 eggs. Infertile; she has not been with a male.

 

[kinyonga]

Its good that she laid them all. You might want to try to slow her down a bit so she will produce smaller clutches by feeding her well for a couple of days and then cutting her back. Don't starve her...just don't feed her too much.

 

[ChameleonNerd]

i know. i was thinking for the next week maybe, she can have "all you can eat" then after that i will do maybe 5, inch long crickets every couple days with a super worm here and there

 

[kinyonga]

Not sure if a week will be too long. I usually give 8 to 12 crickets (or equivalent) every 2 or 3 days when they are cut back...
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/2007/12/keeping-female-veiled.html

 

[DavidBuchan]

Vet obviously didn't do an x-ray then, lol........eggs look good, but after she's recovered from her laying she will want to be on rations like you said. Congratulations on getting through the laying successfully I bet she doesn't look as husky now, does she?

 

[ChameleonNerd]

nope, she's outrageously skinny.. lost 49 grams