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A friend of mine has a pair and the female has layed one egg, Friday. Are cham eggs layed over a short period of time or might we be looking at the possibility of eggbinding? Thanks for any help.

Quig

They usually lay most or all of a clutch at once. Sometimes a female who doesn't have a proper egg laying site will drop them like this. A cham who is eggbound will tend to crouch on the floor of the cage with dark stress coloration, not eating or drinking, eyes shut, and very restless. Is the pair housed together? If so, separate them ASAP! They are causing each other a lot of stress and this can lead to eggbinding. FYI, there are good articles on veiled egglaying and breeding on the Chameleons E-zine that will answer a lot of these questions.

http://www.chameleonnews.com

Carlton, thanks for the link. The two aren't housed together. I think it was just a delayed reaction. She's laying now. Just a matter of a perspective grandma jumpin' the gun I think .

Quig

Great! Good luck to all of you!

I would be the friend...:-D...and I wish I was just jumping the gun. She's been dropping just mostly one and, once two eggs, at a time for a total of 5 in one weeks time.

I figured it could do any harm at this point to place her in the appropriate enclosure...the 100 gal. Reptarium I was given for a b-day gift by hubby. This was done last night. She still has good color, still eats and drinks from a syringe. Hopefully the stress of moving won't keep her from laying the rest of the eggs. I know the arrangements before weren't doing her any good. I'm wondering if placing a CHE to heat the sand (or the heating pad underneath) will entice her just a little more to lay. I really don't want to use air heat since it dries the sand out quicker, but she gets SO cold in there.

She was in a small ESU open-air habitat previously. Good for a baby...not good for a cham 1yr. 3 mo. old.

Any other words of wisdom for me?

I'm wavin' back!! Thanks for startin' this thread...