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I have a female veiled chameleon who has just turned one. SHe has her own cage away from my male but they can see eachother. She has not show her mating colors at all and she has not layed any eggs. I tryed to introduce her to him about once a week for a while so I won't miss her time but she just hisses at him when he gets close. Shouldn't she be ready?

P.S. She dose have a nesting box in her cage.

Glad to hear that you have provided her with an egglaying site and that she hasn't been bred too early!

You should have them set up so that they can't see each other IMHO. You are putting a lot of stress on them both by allowing them to constantly be able to see each other.

You said..."She has not show her mating colors at all and she has not layed any eggs"...is the background color dark at times or constantly? Does she look something like the female in this picture?
http://adcham.com/images/images-species/Ch.calyptratus/CCalyptratusGravidF1.jpg

You said..."I tryed to introduce her to him about once a week for a while so I won't miss her time but she just hisses at him when he gets close. Shouldn't she be ready?"...if she is hissing, dark in the background color, gapes, lunges, etc. then she is not receptive. Receptive behaviour includes light background color, calm demeanor, walking slowly away from the male, etc. Some veileds are ready to lay their first clutch before they are a year old; others won't lay a first clutch until after they have been mated. All you can do is keep trying to introduce them until they both show that they are willing to mate. Mating is not something that you can force.

She mostly always has light green color with white lines even when I put her with my male but she still hisses and gapes at him. The only time she gets dark is when she is mad or basking in the morning.

No clue what IMHO is.