BrandonVanHorn
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ok i just got a jacksons from the pet store and turns out she was pregnant and just had 14 lil baby jacksons. what i need to know is does the mom have to stay in the cage with the little ones or can they be away from her?
help with baby Jackson's Chameleons
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Separate the babies from the mother. There is no maternal care given. And sooner or later the babies may look like food to the mother. I have only had one instance where a live bearer chomped one of her babies before I could get to them (can you believe I was watching her like a hawk, the phone rang, and I came back ten minutes later to babies all over). I will disclose I have never tested to see how long the "do not eat" signal in the mother is good for, but I also probably never will do that experiment. I will also say that I suspect in the above case the baby was annoying the mother by crawling over her while she was giving birth so I don't think it was a feeding response. But the bottom line is that it is best to remove the babies as soon as possible.
Congratulations!
BrandonVanHorn
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thank you thats what i needed to know
