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kidchameleon
07-20-04, 11:20 AM
well, as it turns out, im about 99.9% positive my veiled is gravid. i put a bucket of bed-a- beast in there for her, but she hasnt used it. today i went downstairs to change thier newspaper and stuff, and she was on the floor of her cage, again. except she wasnt moving, and she was very very dark, i thought she was dead because i opened the cage and she didnt move. i poked at her to see if she was moving or anything, but she didnt. then when i went to pick her up she started hissing and tried biting me a lot of times. i finally picked her up and put her in the bucket, and im gonna go check on her soon to see if anything has happened. i hope she's ok, but by the looks of it, she isnt.
Siretsap
07-20-04, 11:25 AM
Same thing happened to a friend of ours. The chameleon died from retaining her eggs.
What I think would work best is if you put much more (and I mean quite a few inches) of earth on the bottom. Chances are she didn't use the bed a beast cause it isn't suitable for her eggs (she prob didn't find it deep enough or moist or any reason). Put a much bigger quantity of earth in the enclosure, I am pretty sure she will start digging.
You could also put her in a tall bucket or something filled with earth soes she can dig to lay her eggs.
As long as she doesn't find a suitable place for her to lay, she will retain the eggs and become egg bound and die from it.
meow_mix450
07-20-04, 11:33 AM
get a garbage can mix it with your bed a beast and earth, make sure its moist and she can dig without it collapsing on her. Leave her in the garbage can for a while with a heat lamp oon top. What i want to know is, is she lying on the flooor like shes dead? If so i think it might be to late, go see a vet? cause what it sounds like is that its lying on the floor dead lol not to be meen just trying to make sense of whats happeniing, hope she pulls through
Meow
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