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I have vields that laid eggs, they are about 5 mos old now (the eggs). I had a few collapse and get some fuzz on it, I opened it up and there is nothing but thick white inside. No sign of chameleon, just looked like blubber, white blubber. Are they even growing in there? All the rest are still nice and white with no shrinkage.

Yes, we have opened lots of eggs over the years.

How are you keeping these eggs?
What kind of container? Medium? Moisture amount? Temperature? Where stored? How far apart?

There are all sorts of factors that affect the growth, but the ones you describe sound like perhaps too much moisture before the embryo developed. It's very hard to be sure though.

When you open an egg as you describe, with the milky or creamy appearance inside, it is bad, and no significant embryonic development ever occurred. After 5 months, any good egg (or egg that had significant development) will first dribble out clear fluid when you cut into it, unlike the milky appearance you described. The current outer shell appearance indicates nothing at this point. If curiosity is killing the cat, using small fine-point scissors, like cuticle scissors, you could cut eggs until you find a good one. Not only will you first encounter the clear liquid, but you then should have no trouble finding a developing chameleon. If and when you find one, then stop and be patient on the rest. I would be more encouraged if you had found clear fluid and some embryonic development, even if the embryo had died during development. That is still reason for optimism with the rest of the clutch. To find the milky appearance you describe normally bodes poorly for the rest of the eggs.
The Chameleon Company

Hey,

About a month before some of my ankaramy eggs hatched, I noticed that one of them had a tiny pin hole in it, and the creamy white stuff was comming out. It surely wanst hatching if this is what you are thinking. But it was 10 months into the incubation, and I thought for sure it was gonna die. But, in the next few days it hardened up. It hatched a month later. If the white creamy stuff means there was no developement in the egg, how did it hatch?

Ank-Inc.
Adam.

Still got him! Won't sell him!

Ank-Inc.
Adam.

Adam, maybe after you have cut into a few hundred eggs, you will have a more informed idea of what is going on rather than what you observed coming out of a pinhole and reacting with any number of things, to include oxygen and evaporative drying. How many conclusions do you make based on one weak observation? How much of an informed opinion can someone have when they have only hatched out one clutch of panther eggs? How many emails will someone send to Tyler at BlueBeast or myself asking the most elementary of husbandry questions, then come to a forum and regurgitate the information as if they had drawn the conclusions based on their own exhaustive experience? The answer Adam, is blowing in the wind. Your egg hatched because it was a fertile egg with a fully developed neonate inside, and the hatching mechanism worked.
The Chameleon Company