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I unfortunately found my female brevi this morning curled up and had passed away during the night I read numerous past posts about people lossing their females shortly after they had laid their eggs and believe my female had recently laid. I aquired a pair at the Hamburg show a few months back. The male is still doing fine. Has anyone yet to find out the mystery with w/cfemales dying so quickly after egg laying? My only hypotheses is that the stress of egg laying combined with importation is too much stress on these little guys. Any advice/insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

I think the general consensus of the previous discussions was that coccidia took them while their immune systems were down during/after egg laying. We never got anyone to get any stool samples though, to my knowledge, so we don't know for sure.
Sorry to hear about your little lady, hopefully we'll find the cause soon so we can help them out a bit more in captivity.

-Brock

Female chameleons usually die after egg-laying, because of it either being dehydration, not eating, or egg bound, which it is usually dehydration and weight loss.
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Ethan

If this was an import there could have been many things going wrong with her. I have an email from Doug Johnston about brevs I'll forward to your address (can't figure out how to attach a Word document to a forum post). Doug has bred them to 3 generations and has some ideas. Most females imported are gravid (or become gravid while housed with multiple males during shipping). They are extremely stressed and malnourished for some time and don't fare well. If a dealer shotguns them for parasites they often overdose and cause serious organ damage. The species is also very short lived...about 2 years. You don't know the age of yours, so there's a chance it was simply at the end of its life.

thanks to all that replied-she was an import and I'll post if eggs hatch out in the future

I was stupid and managed to delete that post from Doug Johnston! Unless anyone still has it and could send it on, here's another option. Doug's email address is: scubadug@netzero.net

>>I was stupid and managed to delete that post from Doug Johnston! Unless anyone still has it and could send it on, here's another option. Doug's email address is: scubadug@netzero.net

Thanks Lele!