Female veiled chameleon laid eggs

[Ollie&Chami]

Chami laid 26 eggs (they look like jellybeans)!
On Monday afternoon, I caught her (she’s been doing it for the past 2 days) at the bottom of the enclosure digging digging, I thought nothing of it at that time. Just Chami doing Chami, I thought she had a week or two left before egg laying and then I got home to a lovely sight after going to check on my meleons. Eggies!!!!! (they look like jellybeans). She did not use her egg laying box but the used soil next to the box (Box was hyper wet so I see why she didn’t use it) and quickly left her alone as the eggs were exposed so I assumed she wasn’t done… I got up this morning and checked on both of them, he was fine as usual. I then checked on her(gave them water, gave her heavily dusted food (not him due to him eating yesterday) hand fed her 3/4 of her favorite foods: super worms). I noticed her tongue was very slow/weak so noted that down, she could barely extend her tongue an inch or two past her face. So I hand fed her. She only wanted 2 so I left the other 2 in her cup. She ate one more of them. So 3/4. She’s in her sleeping spot, just gave them water and nervously dug out her eggs. She had one more clutch in her old enclosure, but I never found them eggs. I knew she laid them by her size one day. I’m rambling . Is 26 eggs ok? I read online normal clutches are 30-60, but google said 26 is good and normal. Let me know what’s up!

 

[MissSkittles]

26 is a decent number of eggs. You definitely don’t want that number any higher, as it really takes so very much out of your girls to produce and higher numbers can lead to higher incidence of problems. I’m more concerned about her not being ravenously hungry. Let’s see how she does today though. I wouldn’t over dust her food…just normal dusting. Do feed her extra though for the next few days. Giving her treats like hornworms and superworms will help with fluids and fats. Silkworms are excellent for nutrition and hydration. Giving some bsfl will help with her calcium stores. Roaches and crickets of course are good nutrition, provided you’ve been feeding them well.
Not sure what to tell you about her tongue, other than give her time and see if it improves. She may have been too exhausted after laying. Hopefully it’s just temporary. If not though, she’ll be ok with a little care. My two veileds are both unable to shoot their tongues very far due to old age. My girl does fine using her shooting gallery feeding station. My male is blind in one eye, so I offer him cup feeding.
If her appetite remains poor or anything else is off, or even if you just have a feeling…a vet visit to get X-rays to make sure she got all of her eggs out and her bone density is good would be best.