skeart
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We have a 9 mos old chameleon named Nigel, who is apparently Nigelita as SHE is, according to her symptoms and the vet, gravid.
She had not been eating much, and was getting what I thought was bloated from ingesting some of the mulch terrain in her aquarium. She was not lethargic, had good color (has the robins egg spots) and was moving around a lot.
She started digging in her mulch last Friday and we have made a laying bin filled with sand to put in her tank and covered the sides to give her privacy. Only lifting the lid to drop in food and mist the tank and sand. She does go in there regularly and digs, as well as in a few other corners of her tank, but as of today, we still have no eggs. I say no eggs because she still looks so bloated and has what may be some edema, or a full bloated look as well in her neck under her chin.
I have researched several sites to find that she can take up to 2 weeks to lay all of her eggs but that seems to be once she has laid some of them. How long from the time that she starts digging should she lay them? From what I have read, it seems like it should only be hours after she starts digging to when she lays. I would like to ask when should I start to worry, but I already am. There are so many horror stories about them becoming egg bound that I don't want to wait too long to take her.
She had not been eating much, and was getting what I thought was bloated from ingesting some of the mulch terrain in her aquarium. She was not lethargic, had good color (has the robins egg spots) and was moving around a lot.
She started digging in her mulch last Friday and we have made a laying bin filled with sand to put in her tank and covered the sides to give her privacy. Only lifting the lid to drop in food and mist the tank and sand. She does go in there regularly and digs, as well as in a few other corners of her tank, but as of today, we still have no eggs. I say no eggs because she still looks so bloated and has what may be some edema, or a full bloated look as well in her neck under her chin.
I have researched several sites to find that she can take up to 2 weeks to lay all of her eggs but that seems to be once she has laid some of them. How long from the time that she starts digging should she lay them? From what I have read, it seems like it should only be hours after she starts digging to when she lays. I would like to ask when should I start to worry, but I already am. There are so many horror stories about them becoming egg bound that I don't want to wait too long to take her.