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I think Uta/Ana is ready! I put her in her setup last night b/c she was scratching the dry sand but took her out this morning. Well, she began scratching again so I put her in around noon. I made an indentation in the sand and just now checked her "delivery room." I took off the bark and she has dug all the way to the bottom of the tank! I'll try to include the pics in this post but if they don't work, look at the last 4 at me webshots link below

Ana's delivery room!

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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - swifty and blotcha for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skipper
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

delivery room set up will work well lele especially with the hunk of bark over the tunnel. Works well, like I told ya as far as having some sort of removable lid (for peeking) LOL

Hope she does well. Let us know. Shes a real pretty girl, and has a very handsome hubby too
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Had asked me WHY I remove the mommy before taking the eggs. Only because I'm a softie and feel very badly taking them, while they are watching, after they just went through so much.

Seems quite mean, and I'm sure it must be stressful as my female collareds continue to kick more sand on their nest for a week or so after laying to keep the eggs hidden.
Little do they know the eggs are not even in the pile they are protecting. But I try hard to take the best care of their eggs for them

So thats why I remove Mom for a few minutes while I collect the eggs then pile the sand back the way she had it and return her.

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...but I sort of figured it was something like that. Her delivery room is a 2.5 tank so I will actually be placing her back in the community tank with Stan once eggs are laid. I have been emailing with Gary Ferguson b/c he used to study them and he said "Utas are very sensitive to cage moisture and will succumb to respiratory fungus if any part of their cage is continuously moist" That is why I made a separate place for her. I know she will retain sperm and could lay again at anytime, so I am not sure how I will handle that. It would be neat if I could make a little hallway b/t 2 tanks and have an egg laying chamber like they do for birds! lol! I still can't believe I am actually breeding!! Yikes!

Btw, if you are wondering about their names...Uta stansburiana is the Latin and since my girls always end in "a"...think you can figure it out. I might try to do better than "Stan" for him, he's deserves a more befitting name
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Chameleon Help & Resource Info
1.0 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon - Cyrus
0.1 Veiled Chameleon - Luna. She's now hanging from her big jungle gym in the sky
1.0 Beardie - Darwin
1.1 Side-blotched lizards - Ana and Stan for now
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Lita
0.1 African Clawed Frog - Skippy
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula - Rosa Leigh, Died 4/21/06
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha, donated to science 4/4/06
?.? Pinktoe Tarantula - no name yet

Looks good! Waiting to hear that she finished and how many eggs you end up with.

I was cleaning Porky and Petunia's cage today and found a lone little egg the size of a small jelly bean. I felt bad for disturbing it, BUT it took it out anyway and I'll try to see if I can hatch it out... It looks good.

Congrats Lele and good luck with your little momma

Eve, you are the sweetest person I know with a huge heart!!

Here's a pic of proud papa

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TFFF
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SWEET yourself, even if you could not see that THIS handsome guy is NOT the father of your leaftail ladys egg, LMAO

IF he is than you will make a fortune on whatever comes out of that eggie
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PHEve / Eve

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Silly Eve!!! Porky and Petunia are my little anoles that I bought for 1.99 No eggs from my leaftails yet, but momma is huge! I'll keep you posted on them! I may have another female on the way.... I'm working the details

P.S. my "female" gecko.. is driving me nuts. I still can't tell if she is she or a he!!!

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TFFF
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Sorry Feenie, thought you told me the leafys were Porky and Petunia, duh, I just have soooooooooooo mnay critter names and pics in my head guess I forgot

Hes a handsome anole dude , should have a good lookin baby

Best guy to ask about sexing your stanics is Mike on the leaftail forum, he has wonderful success with his satanics and is a very COOL (nice guy)
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to much time with the furry goofballs!! LOL, now you are still the sweetest goofball I know

Keeping up with the names is a chore it's self, When I start calling my brother Stitch... I usually call it a night
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TFFF
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Your right, LOL geesh, I know each and every one of my own of course but yep, gottcha on hte getting everybody screwed up when ya go to yell out a name. Hhehehehhee

I got 3 more members of the household to name last week. I put them on the uroplatus forum as off topic, but they are from madagascar so I figured it would be appropriate. They are cute, and very timid, should be real sweet like collareds with some handling.

Madagascar collared iguanids, in order Zuka , Janga, and Jumba

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PHEve / Eve

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They are soo pretty! And I'm sure they "blend" right in!! LOL, I gotta figure how to make my animals blend so I can get more! I love all your pics!! Especially the old biddy's looking out the window gossiping about me! LOL.
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TFFF
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the ole biddys tell me theres alot to gossip about, hehehehee

ahhhhhahaaha ! (They love ya Feenie)
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