I'm glad that you are re-thinking this, and you obviously are thinking about what's best for your chams. Great to hear! I believe that someone dedicated to a particular species can change their "history". Why not? I happened with veileds, panthers, jax, and more recently, melleri. Get yours set up and healthy, that's the first step. Gracefuls are beautiful I think. As you get to know them you may realize that much info available for other species may apply to them too. Watch them, get to know their visual language, and you will learn what they do when they are healthy and when something is wrong. Feed them a variety of insects, gutload them well, don't overdose your dusts, and you may end up with nice long term captive gracefuls. I really would treat the female as if she's already gravid. In the wild, most females of breeding age spend much of their life gravid...and she may have been bred at any time during her travels. If you are lucky enough to have a gravid female so much the better. I bet you will know before 6 months have passed. There are great articles on egg bearing chams on the www.chameleonnews.com ezine site. Good luck!

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