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First thing i do is try to make sure they are as healthy as possible!
I take a 5 gallon bucket fill with 3:1 ratio of NON-fertilized soil and vermiculite moistened not damp that i keep it in the females cage.
Then i make sure the female can see the male i think in doing that helps(just my opinion)
When i feel she is ready to mate,The females usually show breeding colors mostly a bunch of blueish dots

I play a little barry white music to get them in the mood

Then i introduce the female to the males cage,Somtimes the breeding will take place soon somtimes not.A few times i fell asleep and thought there was no breeding only to find the female digging a few weeks later
When the breeding is done i put the female back into her cage
and up her calcium and vitamin intake i beleive raising the calcium /vitamin intake can be overdone so try not to overdo it.
After a few weeks i see the female digging to the bottom of the bucket where she deposits her eggs.
After this i dig up the eggs carefully,I then mark the top of the eggs with a felt tip marker and put them half buried in a container of moistened vermiculite,Checking everyday to keep moist and seperating moldy eggs only when the eggs shrivel and die do i toss them
With a little educated luck,I have baby chams running around in 4-9 months (i havent had a clutch incubate longer than 6 months)

Again this is just my personal experience,There are many different ways to do it,This being just one of them

Might I ask what your incubation temps are? What is your average hatching success and survival rate of babies?

i try to keep the eggs around 80 f.
i would have to say 95% hatching rate (mostly all the eggs that are good after a few weeks hatch)
i am expermenting with different temps right now to see for my self if there is a temp/sex ratio some say yeah some say no
as far as survival most reach at least a month after that i have no idea
if anyone else out there has any information that is from Personal experience i would like to hear it!
like im curios as to what a blue veiled crossed with an orange one looks like when adult, do any of the different color morphs exist in the wild? any different breeding/hatching techniques?

I'm not sure about veiled mixes, I don't think many people have experimented, or they didn't know what kind the female was or somehting else of the sort.
Do you have a nightly temp drop in your incubator? What kind of incubator?
I am breeding my veileds this summer and i'm all ears and eyes for people's experiences. Any other tips?

i have a boekel incubator its not made especialy for eggs
so i modified it to work for me
as far as a nightly temp drop in my opinion i dont feel its that important
some say that you can get a tuperware container and put it in a closet at room temps as long as long as your house doesnt fall below/above required incubation temps i dont know if this works YET but i am going to find out....lol becuase my incubator is full!