Eggs hatched!

[bevil]

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 to the community for help and encouragement.

 

[kinyonga]

Love the look in the first photo!
Are these eggs you bought so you could hatch them.
How many hatched?

 

[bevil]

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, five went moldy and eventually disintegrated. All five hatched. One hatchling died on day three. No idea why. It was heart breaking: hanging by its tail from a branch like a Christmas ornament. The other four are Hunting, eating, drinking, sleeping like champs.

 

[Reptofreak]

Glad some of them hatch for you! Congratulations ?

 

[bevil]

Glad some of them hatch for you! Congratulations ?

Thanks so much Bill, what an adventure

 

[kinyonga]

Sorry you lost one baby and some of the eggs.
I hope the remaining ones will do well!
Do you know the sex yet? Are you going to keep them all?

 

[AmandaS]

Babies!! I love babies! ❤
Congratulations on your clutch!!

 

[bevil]

Sorry you lost one baby and some of the eggs.
I hope the remaining ones will do well!
Do you know the sex yet? Are you going to keep them all?

Thanks! So I’m not sure about the sexes...
What do you think?

 

[kinyonga]

Can't be sure...photo isn't clear enough for these old eyes of mine!

 

[Reptofreak]

It will be easy to tell the sex in a couple weeks.

 

[Chameleomom]

The first photo is my favorite...Has the look of WHAT you looking at?