another update from veiled chameleon cage...

I thought you guys might want to know what's happening in the world of our veiled chameleons.

Here's the cutie patootie female veiled chameleon. She's the same busy mama who laid 23 eggs at the end of May. Now, she's busy growing and shedding her skin!




Here's one of the two deli dishes with veiled chameleon eggs. I pulled the dishes out of the incubator to take a couple of quick pictures for you guys.

In this dish, you can see how some of the eggs are shriveling up. To my untrained vet eye, eight eggs (look at all those e's in a row!) in this dish still look healthy at this point. (I stuck in a penny to give you some perspective.)

Even fewer healthy eggs in this deli dish. If you look at the egg in your upper left, you can see how it's being absorbed into the vermiculite (that soil stuff). There are several discolored eggs now. Eggs that aren't going to make it.

So, out of 23 eggs, about 14 are still hanging in there. I guess the attrition rate explains why she laid so many eggs.

Awwww....a little artsy shot of her taken just after I turned off the heating lamp. Well, actually I dropped my camera a couple of weeks ago, and if I don't squeeze it tightly when taking a shot, a little light sneaks in at the side. So, this is a light-sneaking-in shot.

Veiled chameleons. They don't like to be held much. They don't make much noise. They're slow moving and pretty much just hang out in the upper 1/4 of the cage.

Yet. I love having them as pets.