Lily's Digging!

[Ares05]

I spent a few minutes looking at it wondering what it was. lol

 

[kinyonga]

Congratulations Lily! Job well done! Great size for a clutch!
@GoodKarma...enjoy your time with your family!

 

[MissSkittles]

Yay Lily! Amazing clutch size! Lots of yummy treats now.

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

Wonderful perfect clutch size . Well done xo .

 

[GoodKarma19]

Thanks for the well wishes everyone!! Lily chose a terrible time to lay, but I'm glad she finished BEFORE I left and didn't have any complications!

Laying seems to have taken a bit of a toll on Lily and she wasn't looking too hot while I was away over the weekend (my lovely roommate was taking lots of pictures and asking lots of questions), but she's perking up now that I'm back. Lily seemed quite dehydrated, as she was being very shy around my roommate and hiding a lot, but immediately came up to me when I got home and I took her into the washroom for a shower since she was out anyway. She's looking much better today, and is back to begging for treats. I'll get her some more hornworms today (or tomorrow, pending my schedule), and that ought to fix her up the rest of the way.

I'll be hovering over her more than usual for the next little while, I think! So proud of my girl. What a trooper! ❤

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

Thanks for the well wishes everyone!! Lily chose a terrible time to lay, but I'm glad she finished BEFORE I left and didn't have any complications!

Laying seems to have taken a bit of a toll on Lily and she wasn't looking too hot while I was away over the weekend (my lovely roommate was taking lots of pictures and asking lots of questions), but she's perking up now that I'm back. Lily seemed quite dehydrated, as she was being very shy around my roommate and hiding a lot, but immediately came up to me when I got home and I took her into the washroom for a shower since she was out anyway. She's looking much better today, and is back to begging for treats. I'll get her some more hornworms today (or tomorrow, pending my schedule), and that ought to fix her up the rest of the way.

I'll be hovering over her more than usual for the next little while, I think! So proud of my girl. What a trooper! ❤

Happy to hear she’s improved since your return . Praying she was protesting with you away and her Health continues to improve .

 

[GoodKarma19]

Happy to hear she’s improved since your return . Praying she was protesting with you away and her Health continues to improve ❤.

I'm really hoping that's the case! Lily's can be very shy around other people, though she's much more outgoing when she's out of her cage. When she's out and about, she'll take food from anyone, haha!

I'm watching her very closely just in case she retained eggs, is developing egg yolk peritonitis, etc etc, but I think she's just exhausted and dehydrated. Nothing a little TLC can't fix!

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

I'm really hoping that's the case! Lily's can be very shy around other people, though she's much more outgoing when she's out of her cage. When she's out and about, she'll take food from anyone, haha!

I'm watching her very closely just in case she retained eggs, is developing egg yolk peritonitis, etc etc, but I think she's just exhausted and dehydrated. Nothing a little TLC can't fix!

Lily is in great hands xox .

 

[GoodKarma19]

Sweet girl ate like a cow today, and is looking much better.

I also brought her home an extra special present...

Brand new 18x18x36 ExoTerra, which I promised I'd get her if she got better!

 

[kinyonga]

She's looking pretty good there!

 

[Tony_S]

congrats lily, also I love how she always sticks her tongue out.

 

[The Wild One]

So proud of you Lily!!!! And you too @GoodKarma19 for being an amazing Cham mom!

 

[Fullbackshak]

That's awesome congrats! I have a female (albeit veiled) that's just starting to hang around the bottom of her enclosure. What was the timeline like for you in terms of her progression? I.e. from when she first starting nosing around the bottom of her enclosure, when she evacuated her bowels, when she stopped eating, and when she started to lay.

Happy for both of you it went so well!

 

[GoodKarma19]

congrats lily, also I love how she always sticks her tongue out.

Lily's 100% ridiculous, 100% of the time!

So proud of you Lily!!!! And you too @GoodKarma19 for being an amazing Cham mom!

Thank you! I try, but Lily is definitely my problem child!

That's awesome congrats! I have a female (albeit veiled) that's just starting to hang around the bottom of her enclosure. What was the timeline like for you in terms of her progression? I.e. from when she first starting nosing around the bottom of her enclosure, when she evacuated her bowels, when she stopped eating, and when she started to lay.

Happy for both of you it went so well!

Thank you!

Lily's timeline is super wonky, as she was extremely ill during what must have been her receptive phase and most of her gravid phase and wasn't acting anything remotely like a normal chameleon for upwards of 3-4 months due to (suspected) UVB overexposure and D3 toxicity. Lily's always been a bit of a sickly girl to begin with, which makes it even more difficult to tell what was and wasn't due to her being preggers!

But as far as I can tell for her, she became very energetic and restless toward the beginning of January and started pacing around her cage and patrolling the bottom in regular intervals. This was shortly after I fixed the issue with her UVB, and I didn't really suspect anything until just a day or two before she dug her tunnel. It didn't help that her weight was actually at a historic low, so I almost completely ruled out eggs until I caught her digging! Lily's an absolute eating machine, and continued to eat up until the very day she dug her hole.

That girl's a tough cookie!!

 

[Fullbackshak]

Lily's timeline is super wonky, as she was extremely ill during what must have been her receptive phase and most of her gravid phase and wasn't acting anything remotely like a normal chameleon for upwards of 3-4 months due to (suspected) UVB overexposure and D3 toxicity. Lily's always been a bit of a sickly girl to begin with, which makes it even more difficult to tell what was and wasn't due to her being preggers!

But as far as I can tell for her, she became very energetic and restless toward the beginning of January and started pacing around her cage and patrolling the bottom in regular intervals. This was shortly after I fixed the issue with her UVB, and I didn't really suspect anything until just a day or two before she dug her tunnel. It didn't help that her weight was actually at a historic low, so I almost completely ruled out eggs until I caught her digging! Lily's an absolute eating machine, and continued to eat up until the very day she dug her hole.

That girl's a tough cookie!!

Perfect thank you so much! I just got my girl a few weeks ago, but she was living in a cramped glass enclosure with improper supplements and feeding and UVB, so it's good to know that those factors can play into the progression through their laying cycle. My girl is very overweight so I'm thinking she might be eating right up until she lays with how hungry she is with the new "diet" I have her on Thanks!