I was going to email you last night to tell you not to worry yet about her not laying the eggs...but now its not necessary!

I'm glad she got through the whole process well...now you have a different "worry"...hatching them. Chameleons can drive us crazy!



That's a huge clutch! It could very well have been from one breeding. In my experience the number of eggs laid has to do with the amount of food available when the female is starting to produce the "seeds" for the clutch. (IMHO they need to be fed well just after layinng the eggs and again when they are in the process of producing the eggs, but need to be cut down inbetween to some extent to prevent huge clutches.)



You asked..."Other than the count, what should I look for on the eggs? How far apart to you incubate them? What is the humidity in the incubator? What the temp in the cup and in the incubator? DO you start low 70s to raise 78-80 after few months as I read somewhere? Do you do the night drop in temperature?"...I have hatched veiled eggs for many years and this is what I do...



I use a tupperware type container about 15" x 12" x4". I punch three or four tiny holes in the lid for ventilation. I fill the container about half full of slightly moist vermiculite (coarse grained type...you shouldn't be able to squeeze more than a drop of water out of a fistful of the vermiculite). The reason I only fill it half full is to leave some room for the hatchlings to move around once they have hatched until they can be removed from the container.



I lay the eggs in the container in rows that are spread about 2/3" apart in all directions. This causes the eggs to hatch individually but I have always felt that it gives them the chance to be the best they can be.



I put the lid back on and incubate them at about 78F. My incubator is not closed in....its very "primitive"...and thus allows the temperature to fluctuate with the room temperature to some degree. The humidity is usually steady inside the container and only my removing the lid once in a while to check the eggs affects the humidity in the container. If the eggs start to dent in then I add a little water around the container's edges...never on the eggs.



At this temperature, expect the eggs to hatch around 250 days...but don't be surprised if this varies. I've known them to hatch sooner than that and later too.



Some of the eggs she laid may be infertile, depending on the time within her cycle that she was mated. I always incubate all the eggs even if they look infertile. It won't harm the fertile eggs to leave the infertile ones in there for a while. Infertile eggs will look smaller and less white and will usually mold or go bad in a week or so and can be removed when you are sure they are not fertile.



If you have any more questions, just ask and I'll do my best to answer them.

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