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Jade's belly is starting to get big, but she's bot gravid. She just slowed down her food consumption and drinking, but she is still a pretty light color green. She seems to be getting feisty though.
Anyway, we baught an umbrella tree for her a long time ago and it was way to big and heavy to fit in her cage. So we recently cut a section of her screen cage and placed the umbrella tree on the floor beside her cage. So she can come out and go in as much as she wants. We only did this about a two weeks ago. We really enjoy having it done, and she is in the plant at least once a day. That seems to be where she goes to hide from us the best. She hates us, alot. This morning I went to go and check on her and I couldn't find her anywhere. She was down behind all the branches in the dirt digging. Well, I didn't see her 'dig' but her feet were all dirty and the roots and soil are all broken and disturbed. And she was looking at me all funny, but when I found her, she went back inside of her cage.
She has super soil to dig in, in her cage. It's been there for awhile just incase she is more ready then we think she is.
What I am wondering is, since she already went down and dug in the soil, will she eventually want to lay there? Is she going to get mad when I cover all the soil over tomorrow with the little rocks for aquariums.
We did not breed her, and she is about 8 monthes old. She's a veiled.

She can still produce infertile eggs, so technically she is "gravid". Many times chams prefer digging into the root structure of a plant. If she prefers this site why not let her use it? She's telling you what her preference is, so giving her what she wants is better than risking eggbinding. If you are concerned about her roaming off the plant you can make it "part" of the cage by wrapping the entire plant in flexible screen or mesh of some type and attaching it to her open cage. It will confine her but give her a choice of laying sites too. Good luck!

This plant was fairly large when we baught it. Maybe 6 feet wide and 5 feet tall. But it had MASSIVE amounts of leaf drop in the first two weeks it was home. It's under control now and there is so many new branches forming that we would hate for this plant to be lost. When we transplanted it, it was really root bound, and it has alot of roots exposed on the top. We put it into a larger pot since we got it home and didn't follow the 2 inches bigger rule. It's in a much larger pot, mostly because we baught it for the chameleons and don't wanna worry about repotting again for a few years.
Would her burying her eggs into the plant kill it, damage it, and how would we do once she laid her eggs in there? I know they are infertile because we haven't introduced her to our male yet. We wanted her to make it through one egg laying before we give her real eggs.

Also, there are those little white fertalizer stuff (perilite??)in the soil. Jade has never been a soil eater, but we keep what we can covered by screen or out of her reach. And we had planned on covering this soil with little stones if she ever went near it.
Do all chams eat soil?

No they don't eat it but accidental ingestion is possible, if teye is say a cricket or silkworm on the dirt and she shoots at it she wil alo get some of the soil that it was on. I would suggest at least digging out bout 4 in. of it and covering it in non-perelite soil.