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First let me say thanks to Ingo and froggieb, IV read a few of your post and find them quit informative, your passion for these animals really transcends.

I have some questions, not that I am concerned but still if you have answers pleas let me know. Sins my female nested the male refuse to feed, however the female started feeding yesterday (strait from my fingers) now I have seen this behaviour with other lizards, but usually the male snaps out of it and starts feeding soon, and do you guys separate at this point?

My next question is about incubation, according to the information given to me by Ingo, hatchlings incubated a little warmer tend to be week and hard to feed, have you guys tried fluctuation temperature incubation, like NTL 65f DTH 80f ?

This sometimes allows shorter incubating time and hardy hatchlings.

Rgds

Hi,

normally the males may stop eating for a few days when they are very busy with courtship behaviour.
If they do not court, its very unusual to stop eating for more than a few days. Take care.
I did not ry the temp fluctuations you mentioned. I know from personal experience, that eggs from several species of rainforest dwellers do not tolerate this.
Since G. chmaeleontinus lives in such an environment and buries its eggs relatively deeply, the eggs should not experience stronger temp fluctuations in the habitat.
Since I always had so few eggs, I did not dare to try too much things on them.
If you vary temps upon basilisk incubation too much, embryos die or at least develop kinked tails or other abnormalities.
I do not think that temp fluctuations may be beneficial for incubating eggs from this species, but if your female keeps laying that many eggs, you may give it a try for a subfraction anyhow.

Ci@o

Ingo

Hello again Ingo

I guess we will know with this clutch as I set them this way.
73f-77f it’s not that much variation, hopefully its enough for them to produce strong stem cells.

The male eat today, they are both doing l, I follow your advise about light brightness and changed concept, I also changed them to a blue cage witch doesn’t reflect light as much. My present set up is quit humid with temperature choice from 74f to 95f.
Eventually I will offer them a wider choice of temperature (65f-120f) in a much larger cage.

Hears a photo taken today in new set up.

Rgds