what do you think??

[apple]

so i come home today and decided to check the lil ladys lays bucket and saw lil yellowish whitish balls here are some pix are these eggs b.c she did look kings of big or they r just stuff in the dirt as i was lookin thru the dirt and taking pictures she ran down the branch and was looking at what i was doin in the buck can these be eggs??

 

[Julirs]

Look in the bag of dirt that you used-looks like fertilizer pellets to me...

 

[apple]

the fertilizer pellets r white they are there but these are yellow balls filled with something and when i was looking thru it she hissed at me and she seems to be keeping an eye on the bucket

 

[Vibrant Chameleons]

Sorry but there is no way that those are veiled or panther chameleon eggs. It's possible that they are spider eggs or an egg of some other sort, if they aren't fertalizer.

 

[apple]

yeppp i agree i didnt think they were and plus she is only about 8 inches long i doubt she is pregnant

 

[Ren]

The smallest veiled egg I've seen is a small jelly bean in size, i don't think those are eggs. I also use play sand... easier to retrieve the eggs and cleaner...

 

[apple]

where can i get play sand from?

 

[kinyonga]

The chameleon is a flap-neck isn't it??
The eggs should be about the size of one of those fancy-flavored jelly beans.

 

[apple]

she looks fat and i read some where is the femal is pregnant and he come sin contact with a male she would head but him and thats wat she did shes eating and drinking well but isnt digging so id uno

 

[PardalisGirl]

Those are aged fertilizer "balls". They are white or green when new. After time and watering they are used up and turn yellow like that (I'm a plant and garden fanatic as well as a lizard fanatic).

 

[Ren]

You can get "play sand" @ lowes or home depot for about $4.00 a bag of about 40 to 50# bag...you want to wet it well as if you were going to build a sand castle... also if it takes a few days to get her to lay you will also want to mist the sand to keep it moist otherwise it wont dig as well for her and or collapse and they isn't good either, pack it in really good and dig a test hole yourself and see if it works for you... I also pre dig a small hole and April normally takes off with the hole i dug and goes from there... she will dig all the way to the bottom no matter how big or small of container i put in there... I have a tall tupperware type container with lid... i use the lid on it for storage when not in her cage...

 

[apple]

but these things r filled with something i pooped one by accident and it feels like a shell also wat what age length should i start looking forward to eggs?

 

[Will Hayward]

Apple, those are found in the soil, trust me. They are to keep the roots of plants hydrated.
Use a plain soil without any additions. This type of soil is usually comprised of; sand, peat and aged manure.

 

[apple]

hmm ok thanx for the advce ill go get diff soil unless i find play sand

 

[Will Hayward]

Personally Ive never had luck with just plain sand, it's just inferior for tunneling when used alone compaed to mixing it with other things. My current favourite mix is approximately 2 parts topsoil, 2 parts sand and one part coconut fiber. Then tinkering with wetting it down for a while.

It holds moisture well, holds tunneles easily, less sand in their eyes and swallowed.

Ching! $0.02

 

[apple]

i am using almost a full bucket of potting soil then i baught 2 bags of sand one is calcium sand and the other is just regular aquarum sand and dumped those two bags on top maybe it will be good??

 

[Will Hayward]

As i said, its up to you to tinker with. If you were a delicate pregnant chameleon, would you trust the soil to not collapse while you tunnel downwards up to (err down to...) 2 feet in depth.

 

[apple]

wow thats pretty deeep

 

[Will Hayward]

I figured that when the ladies always laid on the bottom of my bins, that they may have gone deeper goven the chance, so I added more soil, and once more. I have never been surprised so much by a chameleon. The one lady still hit the bottom, who knows, she could have gone farther.

An animal that spends 95% of its life raised above ground, has such insinct and ability.

 

[kinyonga]

Personally I wouldn't use calcisand....its been known to cause impactions and chameleons are known to eat dirt/soil/sand.

For years now, I have used a sand that is produced by kings that comes in a white bag with red, blue and yellow sand box toys on it. My veiled females have eaten lots of it and it always passes through them. (I have had enough autopsies done on veileds to know that it doesn't cause impactions.) It holds the water/moisture well and holds a tunnel well too. It also doesn't lead to infections in the mouth if the mouth is injured during the digging process like some sands I used to use did.