Pygmy chameleon
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I am new to this breed.Iabsoulutaly find them fantastic little creatures! I Want to hatch these little guys. can someone tell me the steps on how to do this?temperature?days to hatch? etc thank you in advance 
how to hatch pygmy chameleons?
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Here are some info I found.
Breeding if you are lucky you may see your chameleons mating, Females will dig deep and lay their eggs close to the roots of a plant or the side of the tank. Clutches can be anything from two to four tiny eggs that closely resemble tic tacs.
Some leave the eggs in the substrate to incubate, always dig them up and incubate at room temps in vermiculite with a sphagnum moss layer, this means you can monitor eggs easily and avoid deaths from stray crickets eating babies that hatch during the night.
At room temperature eggs will hatch around 80-90 days, i have found if the eggs are too warm and hatch early, neonates can fail to thrive. So aim for temps around 72-74f when eggs start to hatch it can take a full day for the hatchling to emerge, they stop for frequent rests and often look lifeless, so don’t panic.
Care of babies is much the same as adults, extra care must be taken when spraying and fruit flies and micro crickets used as feeders whilst they are tiny, use medium pen pals for babies with tights stretched over the top to contain the fruit flies, once they are eating micros they have an open top.
Lastly enjoy these wonderful tiny chameleons...yup...yup
Breeding if you are lucky you may see your chameleons mating, Females will dig deep and lay their eggs close to the roots of a plant or the side of the tank. Clutches can be anything from two to four tiny eggs that closely resemble tic tacs.
Some leave the eggs in the substrate to incubate, always dig them up and incubate at room temps in vermiculite with a sphagnum moss layer, this means you can monitor eggs easily and avoid deaths from stray crickets eating babies that hatch during the night.
At room temperature eggs will hatch around 80-90 days, i have found if the eggs are too warm and hatch early, neonates can fail to thrive. So aim for temps around 72-74f when eggs start to hatch it can take a full day for the hatchling to emerge, they stop for frequent rests and often look lifeless, so don’t panic.
Care of babies is much the same as adults, extra care must be taken when spraying and fruit flies and micro crickets used as feeders whilst they are tiny, use medium pen pals for babies with tights stretched over the top to contain the fruit flies, once they are eating micros they have an open top.
Lastly enjoy these wonderful tiny chameleons...yup...yup
Pygmy chameleon
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great thanks!!!
