Well I've been joking about this all last year and here it is

Well those who know me know that all last year I was joking about it being 'just my luck' that with all the eggs from  the chameleons, all the poison dart frog spawn and all the corn snake eggs they would all hatch or morph out at the same time..... well lo and behold! everything has happened in the last three weeks and to be honest although I'm absolutely thrilled at the success of it all HOLY CRAPBUCKETS!!! these little buggers are eating like pigs.
We are currently up to 31 baby chameleons (with lots more due any day) who are currently labelled Clutch 1 and clutch 2. Clutch 1 hatched about 10 days ago and were very big babies, they had incubated longer than most at nearly 10 months due to the incubator being off slightly and incubating them at the lowest tolerance level for the eggs. They had a couple of feeds of fruit flies but were big enough to take size 2 crickets on the third day. They are currently getting a box of size 2 crickets everyday dusted with pure calcium powder and are being sprayed for 2 five minute periods with nice warm dechlorinated water.Clutch 1 consisted of 14 nice big healthy chams.

Clutch 2 hatched out only a few days ago and are quiet possibly the smallest chameleons you'll ever see, they unlike Clutch 1 only incubated for around 6 months as their incubator was a smidge high temperature wise but we have had 16 healthy albeit small chameleons who are now in a vivarium and eating fruit flies readily only a few more days and I can move them onto Crickets.

Here's the first and again the smallest of the clutch:

That's a five pence piece!
There were 16 chameleons in this clutch and the rest were bigger (although not much)
I managed to get a quick vid of one of the chameleons from clutch 1 eating:

As well as the chameleons starting to hatch (finally) another clutch of corn snake eggs hatched and we had another 8 snake babies (smaller clutch due to the female double clutching). These again are carolina and anery corns and again have very nice markings the little buggers are a bit bitey and cute and as a bonus they are all eating already here's two from a previous clutch:

Anery:

Carolina:

These little guys and girls are fairly easy in comparison to the chameleons and only eat once a week and only poop once a week.... corn snake babies are dead simple! that's why I'm glad my adult pair produce every so often, they are great fun and I do enjoy the whole experience.
Quiet Possibly the best news yet though and again for those who know me know how much time, effort, money, blood, sweat, tears, tantrums this has taken......We are finally having success with the dart frogs an I don't just mean 1 or 2 babies I mean we now have lots.
The Ole maries have produced 9 healthy frog lets who are eating like pigs and growing like weeds:

And on top of that the Hyloxalus have done well too giving us a good batch of 10:

And the Anthonyi are doing well also:

Also the Mysteriosus tadpoles given to me by a friend has popped 2 out of 3 so far =)

SMILEY FACE!!

God my food bill is getting bigger and bigger LOVE IT!!

Baby Chameleons!!!!

Well it's been nearly a year but the day finally arrived for the chameleon eggs to hatch. After a little concern I realised that the incubator I have been using has incubated these eggs at the very bottom of their tolerance range. This has prolonged the incubation time quiet a bit but at last they are out!.
In amongst all the confusion and excitement of setting up a vivarium for the babies and getting through days at work to rush home and see how many more we had, I completely forgot to take any pictures of them actually hatching ..... bugger. Not all a total loss though as I have 1 egg still in the incubator and if I should catch it hatching I'll take a couple of non invasive shots i.e. through the box as I don't want to disturb the baby while hatching.
Here is a picture of the first one out when I moved him into the vivarium, he's still covered in the vermiculite they are incubated on.

I'm going to start the babies off on fruit flies for a few days and then move them up to small crickets. They get sprayed 2 or 3 times a day with warm de-chlorinated water for drinking and humidity and have UVB light and plenty of heat.

Its late now I haven't the energy to explain why there haven't any post until this one or why it so short but I promise I'll catch up later in the week as I'm on holiday... but for now sleeping babies!!!!!!