Panther egg care advice needed

[Craigwyatt]

I'm brand new into panther chameleon breeding. At the tail end of last year I bought quite a few ambilobies. I've already started breeding. My first clutch was laid May 30. Since then I've had a few more clutches. I now have a total of 101 eggs. I can't believe how prolific these chams are when I comes to breeding.

I have all of my eggs in the closet. Temps have been very steady at 75-76 degrees. I really want to get this right. My question is at some point should I drop the temps for a period of time. If so please go into detail. Any other advice on keeping my eggs healthy would be very much appreciated.

Thank you guys in advance.
Craig

 

[deerharvester]

Some people lower temps and then bring them back up. Ive done a little experimenting. Ive found its just easy for me to keep them at a steady temp. I wouldn't get to much warmer then 76 either. I try to keep mine around 73, but im sure others can chime in and shed some light on their methods. Good luck, babies are awesome but a lot of work. Make sure you have plenty of feeders ready for when they hatch. Todd from lyr has a great fruit fly culturing video on here give it a peak when you have a chance.

Scott

 

[Craigwyatt]

Thank you Scott for chiming in. At 73 degrees do you have an average on incubation time. And would you recommend I drop my temp to 73 all at once or gradual. I just put a digital thermometer in the bottom of the closet and it's 72.5

 

[deerharvester]

I have temp guns that I use along with the digital thermometers, just to make sure that they are reading correctly. You can drop it down gradually, or keep it around where you have it, 76 is just a little high for my liking. It can very, usually around 8 months. I recently had a clutch in two separate containers and one container hatched nearly 2 months later. So, you never know for sure but by candling from time to time I can tell usually when they're close.

Scott

 

[Craigwyatt]

How early can I candle to see the embryo or even just veins

 

[kinyonga]

Do you have each clutch of eggs in a different container?

 

[Craigwyatt]

Yes. They are all in separate containers.