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My female is ready to breed, she has good weight, good size (6" SVL), and is showing a lot of robins egg blue dots on her body. Also my male is very eager to breed as well, he chases her down right away when i put my female in his cage. But when i put my female in the cage she does not become receptive. How can i get her to breed because shes ready to breed? Should i put there cages next to each other, so she gets used to him? Please help me with this, i really want to breed them.

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Right after i wrote this i went to go put my female in my males cage for one last try of the weekend, and it worked! After several minutes of chasing around the cage the male got her in a good position for copulation. They were going at it for like 5-10 minutes and then the female slowly walked away. The male still went after her, like he wanted to breed again, is this normal? Also, the female is susposed to change to a black with yellow dots color but she just turned kind of brown and showed her unrecessive behavior (hissing and gaping at him), is she still gravid? So i took her out once she started hissing and i put her back in her cage and she acted really weird, like trying to get out of the cage really bad but she settled down. How can i know if shes gravid because they were going at it for awhile and the male was "jerking" his hemipenes in and out of her? please help again

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It certainly is normal for the male to want to mate all day.

You won't be able to tell if she's gravid for at least a week. What many people do to ensure fertility is to mate the chams every day for a few days, or at least twice within a few days of each other. You will be able to tell if she's gravid by showing her to the male (don't let them actually get to each other) and she will turn all black, or near black, with yellow/orange and sometimes green dots. She will be VERY pissed off! Do a google on "gravid veiled chameleon" and look in the photo gallery, thers no doubt you'll find some pics.

Hope you get some eggs! I've had to hold off on trying to breed my veileds, i'm moving soon and may stress a gravid female, and i'll need to convince my mom that babies won't take much space (good joke, huh?...phh!).