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Hi, Just had my female panther lay eggs and they seem a little on the small size. Anyone here ever measure them? Mine are 1.5 cm long. I might be misremembering, but that seems on the small size. Any information or photographs with a scaled item (a dime, a ruler) showing new eggs would help.

Thanks,

Steve

That sounds about right to me. They may swell a little in the moist medium. I'll see if I have a picture that I can post later.
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Sandra
BC Canada

Thank you so much. I'll be waiting for that. I think you're right because everything seems to indicate the eggs are viable, but gosh I don't remember them being so small and they look dwarfish next to my new veiled eggs.

Steve

Panther eggs are definitely smaller than veiled eggs when they are first laid! It was a shock to me the first time...especially since I had also incubated C. cham eggs which were similar in size to the veileds...and then the smaller panther eggs came along!

If this is the first time your female has laid eggs, they tend to lay them the size of tic-tacs. Females lay larger eggs as they go along. Kinyonga is right they aren't the size of Veiled eggs but they do grow in the incubation medium.

First time for me in about 5 or 6 years and first for my female. The tic tac description is spot on. Didn't help matters that I couldn't find ANYTHING about egg sizes on the internet or in any of my books. I never wrote it down in my now dusty journal, so when I saw the eggs next to recent veiled eggs, I was really unsettled.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Steve

I don't seem to have taken any pictures of fresh laid eggs with a reference item to help with size. But I do have a picture of a freshly hatched panther cham, next to his egg and a Canadian 25cent piece (quarter). The egg was slightly smaller when first laid. Will you be selling your babies when they hatch? I'm in the market!

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Sandra
BC Canada

Hi, Sorry so long to get back to this thread. Hey, I'm a coin collector so the Canadian Quarter works for me! Thanks for the photo.

I'll definitely be selling them, but I noticed your in Canada. Is it even possible to ship chams from the U.S. to Canada without an exporters license? Wonder what is involved in getting an exporters license???

Steve

Yes, one needs a license and it's far from cheap.
Its very hard to find panther chameleons where I live, and I can't seem to find any US breeders who can ship.
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Sandra
BC Canada