Eggs hatching baby veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2020
- LivingWithLizards.com
Sharing a few thoughts about baby chameleons, how to sex them and how the appearance of lizard eggs can give us clues about how our husbandry is doing.
All I focussed on was the little black looking one not moving..... 😕😕 But he/she could just be resting as you don't mention it, i'm sure you would spot a dead one immediately.
Wonderful video, thank you for the education.
I have a question the egg you pointed too in the beginning of video how long did it take for the baby to hatch and how many months were your eggs. I have a egg that looks like that but was white like normal and then shrank and started sweating yesterday idk what time but then it turned just like that
Im probably super late. But wat was your experience like? How long until the eggs hatched?
Love seeing the little one moving around ready to break out
You have a good narrator voice
Astounding!
How many eggs in this clutch Scott?
40
How long did it take before the eggs started hatching? like how many days or months?
Looks like it took this group about 7 1/2 months (I really can't remember, but at the beginning of the video I can see the lay date on the egg container was December 2nd 2019 and I say the is hatching today, July 24, 2020. Like many chameleons, veiled chameleon eggs go through a diapause or dormant period where the eggs are not really developing they are just waiting at some point before proceeding to develop further. Because this period of dormancy can vary, I have had eggs hatch as early as 5 1/2 months and as long as 14 months after being laid. I have been keeping and breeding these lizards since 1993 and during that time have tried many temperature variations for incubation, including day/night temperature swings, warmer and cooler constant temperatures and a winter period with several weeks of very cool temperatures followed by months of warmer. For me, the fastest incubation time was achieved by a temperature of 82 day/69-72 night throughout, followed closely in time by the several weeks of cool, then warmer method. The longest happened when they were kept fairly cool (mid-60s to about 72 at the most) throughout.
@@livingwithlizards3104 thanks for the reply. Im from the Philippines. I want to have chameleons someday. ❤
Show us a vid on the incubator pls
Hi Kyle! For these I do not use an incubator. They incubate at room temperature.
@@livingwithlizards3104 thank you for coming back to me, I was wondering if you have a video on your egg setup I would really like to see if I can breed my own 😜
@@kylemoss1135 Not sure what you are asking. The egg setup is shown throughout this video. Are you asking about the nest box the eggs are removed from or the process of collecting the eggs and putting them in the container shown in this video? If it is the nest box for the chameleons- I don't have that on video yet. You can use a bucket filled half way with earth, or a 3 gallon storage container with a hole cut in the lid, filled most of the way with earth. This video shows how I collect lizard eggs and set them up for incubation: th-cam.com/video/m9NNIn-nTuk/w-d-xo.html . Chameleon eggs are similar, but these chameleons will dig a deep tunnel and lay at the end of the tunnel and then completely fill in the tunnel and cover it up to hide it. There is more digging involved to collect the eggs.
it looks like the black area is a dead one?
Black area? Not sure what you are talking about? Maybe adjust your computer monitor? There is one dark lizard that is curled up in the video. They do change color- that is why they are called chameleons. It is not dead. Sometimes they rest as newborns after hatching. Sometimes they change color. Resting curled up is not unusual right after hatching. Like baby anythings, it takes a lot of energy to come into the world and sometimes it takes an hour or two to adjust to the change of life outside the egg.
What is the appropriate temperature and humidity?
I do not track humidity. The containers are air tight food storage containers. So no humidity leaves. I use 1 part water to 1 part perlite by weight. Temperature can vary a lot depending on what you want to try to do with the incubation (for example, the eggs rest or diapause a kind of random length of time during incubation. More predictable incubation time can be achieved by allowing the eggs to drop into the 60s f for a couple of months and then returned to the 70s, or by simply warming to about 80-82 during the day and allowing the eggs to cool into the low 70s- mid 60s at night. But generally speaking, temperatures in the upper 60s to upper 70s throughout incubation are fine.
@@livingwithlizards3104 can you give me a specific range for humidity? No one is giving an actual number 😅
@@lisaenglert3202 I cannot. I imagine it is close to 100% because I see condensation in the containers below the perlite line. I use air tight food storage containers. That means that humidity stays constant throughout incubation once the eggs are set. Humidity is determined by the amount of water in the substrate. I have used either perlite with an equal amount of water by weight, or I have used vermiculite that has been soaked in water for a few minutes and then had squeezed as much water as possible from the vermiculite (this was once very common for chameleon eggs) and I now use hatch-rite (a commercial product that seems to me to just be pre-moistened perlite so I don't have to weight things out). If you want to know the humidity for my eggs, just try one or more of those methods and measure the humidity in the container.