Pictures of my Veiled Chameleons
An Overview of Egg depositation in Veiled Chameleons:
By carefully observing my female veiled I knew
that she would be depositing her eggs soon.
So prior to her laying the eggs,
I placed a 5 gallon bucket into her encloure
filled with semi-moistened sand.
Next I proceeded to turn on the
Havabator brand incubator and preset it to 85f.
It ran for a few days and I checked the temperature
daily, so that I knew that it was set correctly.
This is a very important step...
You don't want to find out AFTER you have a few
cups of eggs that your incubator is not holding
the correct temperature.
I have found 85f to be a great incubation
temperature.
Veiled eggs take about 160 days to hatch.
The following is a pictorial of my Female Veiled
Chameleon depositing her eggs.
I have included the steps that I took to remove
and incubate the eggs properly.
Looking from outside of the semi-transparent
bucket the eggs are clearly visible.
The female dug a hole in a bucket that I placed
into her enclosure.
She dug down to the bottom of the bucket and
deposited 62 eggs.
Once she finished depositing her eggs.
she buried them and crawled out of the bucket.
Once she exited the bucket I carefully removed
the bucket from the encloure.
I made a note of the surface temperature. (87f)
I used a plastic spoon to carefully,
remove the eggs one at a time, inspecting them
for defects and problems.
Then I placed them into Deli cups about 1" apart
I made sure to place them partly submerged into the vermiculite.
The next step was to move them into the ready
and waiting Havabator.
The cause of all of this....;O)
be sure to check back to see the babies!!!
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