Maybe they aren't calcified enough? They are still live, though- I checked very carefully last night with a pen light and they all have veins and dark spots inside. What does a candled near- full term egg look like? What do eggs look like just before they hatch? Chameleon Nation New Member. About to hatch Here is a pic of one about 2 weeks away from hatching kenya said:. Click to expand Last edited: Sep 27, Chameleon Nation said:.
Here is a pic of one about 2 weeks away from hatching. Transparent eggs I have a clutch of 45 veiled eggs right now that are almost completely transparent. They are due to hatch any day now. I usually add some water around each egg about a week before they are due. Within about days they go transparent, then by day 7 they usually begin to hatch. My veiled eggs hatch in about months incubation time 83 degrees. They can also go transparent if they are under calcified, some of the other members on here beat me to that one.
I keep a few different types of chameleons. The veiled chams are the only ones that I have ever go transparent on me eggs. I have a clutch of 45 veiled eggs right now that are almost completely transparent. Hey Kenya, Im very glad that you brought this topic. I have the same thing going on with my veiled eggs from july 2, I never had this happen with the couple other clutches Ive hatched but Im quite convinced that it has to do with the moisture in the containers.
Not all of my eggs have this going on but the ones that have Ive had add moisture to more frequently have that transparent look. The ones that I havent added water too as much dont have it or very tiny little specks of it.
I think that when water comes in contact with the shell it does some thing to it. I wouldnt think that they would survive long if they were undercalcified. Thats just my thought on it. Ive been keeping mine qbout F and thy are all looking good and on there way to hatching in a couple months.
I would think that yours would hatch and be just fine! Last edited: Nov 15, They are hatching! You must log in or register to reply here.
Similar threads. Candled F. Campani egg reveals interesting implications. Some will refer to these as dust sized, one day old, just hatch, ant sized. You need to get your point across to them by explaining exactly what you need! Your needs for these very small crickets will only be 10 to 20 days.
These baby crickets will grow quickly! You want to raise or purchase ant sized crickets for your baby chameleons directly out of the egg.
For the first two weeks meals. Try not to dump to many into the container this can cause a baby to become confused unable to decide which one to eat! Some will go to crickets. FF and crickets mixed together Yes you can mix them. FF will travel all over you cage and be eaten. Crickets will be eaten from a cup if you provide or broadcast them into you cage. Broadcasting crickets this simply means allowing them to free roam in the cage.
It allows the babies to hunt the insects a perfectly natural instinct. Supplying a small amount of cricket food inside the chameleon cage can be a good thing also allowing those uneaten crickets to a food source other than the baby chameleon. Baby crickets will bite baby chameleons if left in large numbers inside of your chameleons container.
Basking The amount of time allowed for basking can vary greatly. But all babies need to bask allowing them to digest properly.
You will recognize basking when your babies turn their bodies leaning toward the sun or artificial lighting and changes color to darken themselves thus regulating body temperature. If you have a group of babies in a screen cage or a solid wall container.
You will see the babies begin to move and taking cover under leaves retreating to cooler places. That is the time to remove them from the high temperatures. Allowing them to become cooled to room temperatures below basking spot temperature Usually this happens within 10 minutes.
Basking can occur three time daily during the babies first few weeks. Water can be supplied after basking. Artificial lighting Real sunlight is what all the bulb mfg. And some of these bulbs work just fine.
When in doubt use real sunlight for brief periods of time 10 to 15 minutes at a time. Big hint here. Set a timer of some type to measure the amount of time your babies in sunlight , 20 minutes could be too long! If keeping babies outside. Wild fruit flies are very easy to culture and readily available throughout the day time. Chameleons are opportunistic feeders and will eat all through the day time hours given the constant availability of these small flies.
Other larger flies will also be attracted and consumed. Supplements are as important as a good food supply. Supplements can only become effective as the animals begin to eat larger meals. And in tiny hatchlings can cause blockage if used improperly. There are ways of providing supplements to a one week old baby without any extra effort by simply using a high quality cricket gut load! Remember we are talking about babies 0 to 5 weeks old not 4 week old animals. At 4 weeks you can begin to apply supplements if you desire.
Humidity How can you keep the humidity high in a babies cage. A better question is. What is a humidity. It is allowing the air to carry moisture. The amount of moisture in the air is what most people who need to add humidity will be trying to accomplish. Ultra sonic humidifiers are a good means of adding humidity to the air in a room.
A basic quick fix also is to dampen a towel or other clean cloth. Drape it over the cage and it will add humidity to the air. This is a quick fix! Adding a 16 oz deli cup on the top of this cloth with a pin hole in the bottom allowing water to drain onto the cloth adds humidity for longer amounts of time.
Using real plants and spraying them daily will increase humidity levels. Having more them one plants in the room you keep animals in need of higher humidity levels can also be of help. Closing the door to this room allows the humidity to be trapped inside the room. A water dish with river rocks filled with water will disperse some humidity. You should not be able to see the water in the bowl just the rocks..
You have a well started chameleon growing rapidly in need of some special care and feeding requirements for all intents and purposes you have a baby to care for feeding on pin head or fly sized crickets or crickets that do not exceed the width of its head. Remember that chameleons chew the insects they eat and a little larger sized cricket can be consumed without trouble.
Watching your baby chameleon struggle to swallow a larger insect can look gruesome this is because it is. After saying that we should caution you from using larger sized feeder insects as a staple in the diet. Definitely it is better for a chameleon to eat small meals throughout the day on different occasions than one larger meal before you go to work. All of us needing to be away during working hours can only feed one time in the morning before we depart to our jobs.
This is one good reason to use as large a cage as possible heavily planted with plants for the baby to roam on.
A days supply of feeder insects loose inside of this container. This also is another good reason for using the smaller feeder insects.
Realizing you are making attempts to feed throughout the day you should see the importance of wet gut loaded crickets and a small amount of dry gut load inside the cage will be a helpful addition to the crickets diet and your babies diet. A gut loaded cricket is going to serve somewhat as a water supply as well as supply protein for the days meals.
At Backwater Reptiles, we incubate our eggs in shoebox sized plastic boxes. You can purchase these types of plastic boxes at any large department store. We fill the boxes with Perlite that is damp but certainly not dripping wet, label the boxes with the clutch date, close the lid, and store on a shelf at room temperature.
If you take nothing else away from this article, remember this: quick temperature fluctuations are dangerous—very slow, gradual changes are far less so.
This particular clutch was laid on March 3rd, and took a little over six months to hatch. Some scientists believe there is some type of chemical communication involved. This is all normal! Just like human babies, hatchling chameleons of any species, not just the Sailfins pictured, need to learn how to use their limbs. The babies will climb all over each other, use each other as stepping stools, and be generally awkward and bumbling for a few days. Eventually they will snap out of it.
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