Excited, and now its time for the long wait

[meow_mix450]

Hello

As of now....

Today(Aug Friday) at 8:30pm she started another hole, she dug the hole for 3 hours and 10 mins. It all ended at 11:40pm. She laid 35 white eggs with no cracks or dent. I don't know if they are fertile or not. The egg is very small and white not yellow. But when I placed the eggs in the container the inside looks yellow. I have place them in the incubator cause thats where I feel best they should be. The temperture has ben consisent for a month at 27 degree's(81F). It has taken her 27 days to develop the eggs and lay them. At this point her colours are still gravid and I have no clue if she still has more eggs or not. My hopes are there won't be any. Its late right now and Im off to bed soon, but I have taken some pics and I will post them sortly. Starting from today I am counting down tfrom 180 days. This is a guide line I am following. In about 180 days I will be expecting babys or eggs that are sweating. This date is around Janurary through March. It also might be a lot longer, all depends on when nature wants them to hatch. I have been getting ready to prepare for the babys and other clutchs in the near future. I have already begun to breed superworms, they are at the pupating stage and will be expecting beetles soon. Soon I will have a colony where I can feed them to the babys( I will wait until they shed then feed it cause of there outer shell). I have successfully got crickets to turn into pinheads.

What will happen in the future....

In the near future, I will be starting a culture of wingless fruit flys. The date of this will be some time in November. I will also be trying to bulid small cages for them to live in and get them a bigger cage once they have out grown it.

Tomorrow I will be posting pictures of the parents and pictures of the eggs.

I would also like to give thanks to many many people: Trace, Brandy a.k.a Collide, Jason a.k.a Dank7oo, Jamie, Vipervemon, Stich, Chris, ssnakess.com, chameleononline.com, chameleondatabase, adcham, E-zines, Chamjournals and petreptiles(if i have forgotten you i apologize its alte and my brian isnt working lol). Again without these sites and people I will not be here right now.

Meow

[dank7oo]

That sounds great Jay. Looks like you have everything well planned. My only concern is that you say the eggs look yellow inside. To me, that sounds like they are duds (but not 100% sure). If I'm not mistaken, good eggs, when held to a flashlight, should be a pinkish color. Could someone confirm this for me?

Jason

[DragnDrop]

The eggs are in diapause when laid, they won't be developing for a while. I'd suggest reading up on pardalis egg incubation. Adcham has lots of info in their database. For one thing, if the eggs are at 81F, they might be in diapause for up to a year. I'd hold off on the fruit flies and worm breeding efforts for a few months yet.

[meow_mix450]

These are pictures I have of everything

These are pictures of the male



These are pictures of the female



This is when the 2 are mating


These are pictures when she got gravid



This is where she laid her 35 eggs





This is her now



So i guess i will be getting the eggs in around the next summer?

Meow

[dank7oo]

Wel one thing is certain. The babies are going to be stunning!

Jason

[panther_dude]

no doubt. good luck.
I should be getting infertile eggs soon lol. within the month

[K1LOS]

Soo... who has a female to hook up with my sexy little man? If he gets baby chams i do too d*** it!

Geoff

[CarlC]

I would get them out of the incubator and let them go at room temp. You will have a much healthier hatch if you allow for the slight temp drops at night. Optimal hatching temps range from 68f-75f. You are much better off having a longer incubation if it gives you healthier babies. As Hilde said you are just gonna keep them in diapause longer at warmer temps.

I had Amabanja's hatch times vary from 6 month's to 9 month's using room temps.


Carl

[meow_mix450]

Would it be to late to take it out after 5 months?

Meow

[CarlC]

If you have gone that long I wouldn't change things. Just be carefull with openeing the incubator all the time checking on them. The more you do this the greater risk of hatching problems. Each time you open the egg caontainer you are losing the moist humid air.

Carl