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heyhey all iam lookign into veilds and have been doing alot of research for the past 2-3 months now ima looking into gettign one iam starting on my enclosure do u think that 40" by 25" by 25' will be big enough from the rescaech ive doen it seems that that will be big enough for a adult veild, and iam also looking into breeding them iam not new to reptiles, so are they hard to breed most sites say they are pretty easy but i want an expert opion , thx in advance i will strat building the enclosure tommorrow

Welcome to the Chameleon realm. Personally, I don't think any reptile can beat a good cham. The cage dimensions sound good. Breeding them isn't that hard, just put the male in the female's cage whenever she is showing receptive signs, wait about 20 days and put sand in for her to dig, make sure to supplement calcium once every second feeding so she doesn't deplete her own calcium reserves. Then you have to incubate them for 200 days. I just bred my pair for the first time a few weeks ago, still waiting for her to lay eggs. Very interesting stuff.

-Brock

Hey, I have had my veileds for a couple of years now. One male and one female. Each is in their own 24"x24"x36" screen cage. As far as I can tell, this is big enough for them. Them seem happy. I have it very well planted. They never climb on the screen or anything. I made the cages myself, they work great. I used regular screen, and not metal screen, HUGE MISTAKE. Easily avoidable, use the metal screen. Otherwise the crickets eat right through and it starts looking ugly fast. Anyhow, yeah, I think that cage dimensions you said are good. Bigger is always better, but I think it works. Every cham that you end up getting absolutely needs to live separately. They absolutely have to have the UV lights and trhey need calcium dusted crickets. You probably already knew all that, but I am just repeating it.
I have bred mine, everything went right according to plan. It was relatively easy, just the egss took 6 months to hatch, which is normnal, just tests your patience. Anyhow, good luck with it. Veileds are awesome. Don't forget though that they don't like to be handled (although I'm sure some people will disagree there). Anyhow, that's all I got to say. Good luck with them.

Chris Fullmer

i was wondering how many clutch and eggs do they have?

NP

Yeah, 15 to as many as 100 even I have heard. Average in captivity is more like 40 though. Mine laid around 40 when she laid at Christmas time. I've heard they lay around 3 clutches a year. Mine has not wanted to breed again since the first time, so she has only laid that one clutch.

Chris Fullmer

Hello there,

I have also beeen through that "stage". I had a male (mine) and a female (brothers). We are very young, but lets just say with hours of sitting in front of a computer, doing mathematical equations (actually multiplying and dividing, but we like to refer to it as equations) to figure out how many crix will we need to feed Ghost according to his weight, and being VERY patient, we got our clutch, which is due to hatch by fall. The lesson (yeah i know, taking lessons from a teenager, must be weird) LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALSO BRED THEM!!!
This will prevent new-b accidents (oops, i think i just threw away my females second fertilized clutch...). So good luck and happy breeding!

Best wishes,

Anthony