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I purchased a trio of carpets and one on the females is gravid. I will not be receiving the chams until the weather warms up to 30 which may take weeks (Good old 8 degree ohio). But anyway, I was second guessing my choise to buy a gravid female. I have the option to buy a non-gravid female in her place. Due to the high mortality rate and low fertility of imported gravid females is this a wise move? From what I have read about carpets they are quite the prolific breaders, dropping 3-5 clutches a year. So would it be best to buy 2 non gravid females? Are carpets as easy to breed as veileds or panthers (what I mean buy this is do you just put them together and they breed, no temperature drops, no increased himidity or moisture...)? would I be able to get more clutches out them? any help would be greatly appriciated.

yeah they breed pretty easily it just they only live 2-3 years and have a semi demand on high humidy ....the two main reasons they aren't a wide spread cham (i.m.o.).

they do have some of the best variety of colors all in one cham...unlike panthers one have just a few colors per animal the female carpets have just about a rainbow on them

I would buy a gravid and a non gravid. and have them both go to the vet(a good reptile one) within a few days.

If it was me purchasing a w.c. carpet I'd buy all gravid ones.. The mortality rate is close to 90% for them, and they only live a couple of years. I again would buy gravid ones and a male, in the case they do survive after laying the clutch you can always rebreed them, but I'd make sure your male gets checked out by vet so as not to spread "goodies" back and forth to your females.