Tuesday 15 January 2013

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!!!!!!