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I have just adopted two veiled chameleons. Every day when I got back home from work, I find some feces and a lot of tiny little yellowish rice-shaped things in their water bowl. I think they are eggs. Are they cricket eggs or anything else?
Please help. Thank you.

it they are tiny, and the water bowl is shallow, then they probably are cricket eggs.crickets tend to lay eggs in moist soil, so if it resemembles that kind of environment it could be. take them out and put them in a container. see what happens in 2 weeks, they might hatch.

they might be fruit fly larvae too.....

hmmm...if they are in or from feces I'd be concerned that they may be parasites of some sort. Are they moving (therefore larva of something) or still? Do a GOOGLE search for cricket eggs and for herp parasites and see if you can get some good images to compare.

Are your chams wild caught? Might be a good idea to have a fecal done at your vet. I'm no expert so this is just my 2 cents

lele

>>I have just adopted two veiled chameleons. Every day when I got back home from work, I find some feces and a lot of tiny little yellowish rice-shaped things in their water bowl. I think they are eggs. Are they cricket eggs or anything else?
>>Please help. Thank you.

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Water bowl..???
Chameleons don't usually drink from a bowl of water, they prefer water dripping off leaves. Some will drink from rodent watering bottles - but most prefer drips.

If you are allowing the crickets to run around inside the cage - usually they will die in water... so you should see the cricket in the bowl too - if those are cricket eggs.

Can you get a close-up picture of this? And maybe a picture of the cage - as well as the chams? Are these the only chams you have?

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>>I have just adopted two veiled chameleons. Every day when I got back home from work, I find some feces and a lot of tiny little yellowish rice-shaped things in their water bowl. I think they are eggs. Are they cricket eggs or anything else?
>>Please help. Thank you.

Thank you for all of your replies. I would love to show you the pictures of the cage and the Chams. But how can I put pictures on this forum. I am stupid in IT. The things I described are not moving and just like several hundred of very tiny rice. I don't think the crickets go there any lay eggs as I usually make sure they have finished all the crickets I gave. I wonder if they eat the crickets and can digest the eggs which already inside in the crickets' body. I have seen one Cham drinking water from the water bowl but not the other one. They seem like poo poo in the water bowl.

>>I would love to show you the pictures of the cage and the Chams. But how can I put pictures on this forum.

You can load a picture in your Kingsnake photo gallery and then it will show in a list when you post. Other than that, you have to upload to a web site and insert the URL in your post.

>>I have seen one Cham drinking water from the water bowl but not the other one. They seem like poo poo in the water bowl.

I sure wouldn't want my chams drinking from a bowl that had waste in it! It's better to get them drinking naturally from the drips off of leaves.

Morgana