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I just got back from the irba show after purchasing a 1.1 pair of baby veilds from amazing blue and was super excited. After putting the veilds into their new cages I take a peak at my female jackson's cage only to notice a baby jackson's on the screen. Unfortunately I was too excited about going to the show this morning and didn't bother to give my other chameleons more then a glance. I could have saved the little jackson's but now I'm left with only one and the rest are history. the weird thing about all this is that she just gave birth 3 months ago and has not been showing any more signs of being gravid

Sorry about your babies.

I have heard that chameleons store sperm, that might be a possibilty?

yes I know that but a gestation period of 3 months is awfully short. Most of the dead babies look really premature. Could this be a husbandry issue on my part? The last 15 babies I had were all normal with no problems or defects

Last year I had some day geckoes that I put in a cage that used to house a female panther eat some baby panthers that hatched out. this is a somewhat large outdoor enclosure and she must have laid some eggs at some point that I didn;t notice. I don't know how many hatched I just saw a day gecko take out what must have been the last(only)one as I did not find any afterward. I also have a pair of day geckoes that are incredibly good at hiding eggs being Grandis day geckoes the are also quite cannabilistic and eat their babies readily I cleaned their cage one fall and found 5 or 6 clutches of hatched eggs in a hollow log. I of course filled in the hollow part of that log afterward. Then ther's the green tree skinks I once tried breeding, dittos they day gecko incident. Btw Chameleons do retain sperm (amphigonia retardata I believe it's called) and they can sometimes have offspring a few years after mating.