New Gracilior Bloodline!

[jajeanpierre]

They can breed, they can lay eggs but until they hatch, it is only a dream. I am so relieved to introduce the second Trioceros quadricornis gracilior bloodline in the USA. I am soooooo relieved to have a hatchling. More pipped and sweating. The mother is a spectacularly beautiful emerald green who was imported in June gravid. One egg hatched, eleven to go. Fingers, toes and eyes all crossed.

 

[Lizzie The Chameleon]

wow! fingers crossed for you!

 

[Extensionofgreen]

Great work, Janet!

 

[Decadancin]

Awesome! Here's to a 100% hatch rate!!! Great news. Please keep the pics and updates coming .

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

Congratulations Janet! It is great to have new lineages of Trioceros quadricornis gracilor's available now.

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich

 

[jajeanpierre]

Awesome! Here's to a 100% hatch rate!!! Great news. Please keep the pics and updates coming .

I did get a 100% hatch rate! I was mistaken when I said there were twelve eggs--she only laid 10 in this first clutch. She laid a second clutch of 12 for me in October. Silly me--I was just too excited at ONE baby hatching to notice how many eggs there were.

The sad part is that I lost every single egg from another clutch of completely unrelated graciliors that were laid a week before this clutch with the 100% hatch rate. The eggs were kept almost exactly the same, even on the same shelf of the incubator. I don't know what went wrong with the other clutch. The eggs swelled double the normal size and the babies died at various stages of development, some very close to hatching. There is one egg left, but I have no expectation that it is alive.

Here's a picture of the two clutches side by side. All the eggs that died were huge and white like the one in the top right until they started sweating around the expected hatch date. Once they started sweating, they shrank to normal size and didn't hatch. I believe the babies were long dead before the eggs started sweating. The only difference to these clutches is that I used the last vermiculite from the bottom of a bag for the first clutch and had to buy new vermiculite for the second clutch on the right. The bottom of the bag was mostly smaller pieces of vermiculite and I wonder if it might have been a humidity problem. I think I kept the second clutch in a container of Crystal Hatch and those incubator trays for awhile and then chickened out of experimenting with such a valuable clutch and put them in new vermiculite. You can see the difference in size of the vermiculite pieces between the bottom of the old bag of vermiculite and the top of the new bag. The picture below was taken eight days before the first baby hatched Friday. Any thoughts on what might have gone wrong with the clutch would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ilike4hornedchams]

They can breed, they can lay eggs but until they hatch, it is only a dream. I am so relieved to introduce the second Trioceros quadricornis gracilior bloodline in the USA. I am soooooo relieved to have a hatchling. More pipped and sweating. The mother is a spectacularly beautiful emerald green who was imported in June gravid. One egg hatched, eleven to go. Fingers, toes and eyes all crossed.
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Hallelujah!

 

[Remkon]

congrats on a job well done! To you and the female of course!

 

[Andee]

Good job Janet ^^ and good job to the mother <3