Monday, September 6, 2010
Posted by Sarah on July 22, 2008
Here’s Sully climbing on the top of his cage this morning.
He is usually on the top of the cage, or in the tallest branches.
Skye crawls to the top of the cage every now and then, but she’s usually hiding in the middler of her umbrella or ficus trees.
Monty and Sheila, our ball pythons are almost always under their water bowl hides, unless they are hungry.
Where do your reptiles spend most of their time?
Posted by Sarah on July 1, 2008
We’ve got 13 Nosy Be Panther Chameleon Eggs, and they all look alive.
I’m excited, and nervous at the same time.
We moved the eggs into a Thermal Hovabator Incubator after reading that they worked well for chameleon eggs, and after finding out that only one place in town carries incubators, and the one we thought would work there was about $130.
Since some people keep thier chameleon eggs in a box on a shelf or in a closet we figured the eggs would be ok if we waited to order an incubator that would work better for them.
I knew that there were at least 10 eggs, but I was thinking there were at least 14. When we finally counted it looked more like 13, but that’s fine.
The eggs are so tiny – when I saw them for the second time I was surprised at how small they were.
I can’t imagine how small the chameleons will be when they hatch.
We’ve already got one request to call as soon as they hatch, even if it’s three am, and several requests to call at a more reasonable hour so people can come see the hatchlings.
Unfortunately, it can take between 6-13 months for the eggs to hatch, but at least that will give us enough time to be fully prepared for 13 chameleons.
The picture shows the eggs as we were taking them out of the Critter Keeper we kept them in until we got the incubator.
Sorry they are so blurry, but we didn’t want to mess with the eggs too much, and Jeff was too excited to wait for me to take pictures.
Posted by Sarah on June 23, 2008
Skye finished digging her hole last night.
She moved from the ficus plant with the potting soil into a container that we’d filled with sand and put in the cage last year.
When we walked into check on her she was perched on the walls of the cage with sand all over her nose.
She didn’t look noticeably smaller though, so we’ll see what happens.
Posted by Sarah on June 22, 2008
I couldn’t find Skye this morning when I went in to water her, and I was freaking out!
I called Jeff in, and he was able to find her – in the bottom of the ficus plant digging a hole. She was jet black, which is why I didn’t see her.
Skye is a little escape artist, and we found her in Sully’s cage a while ago, so I’m not sure if they mated, or if she is laying infertile eggs.
I hope they are fertile, but at the same time I’m scared because I know that laying eggs reduces the life span of the female chameleons – whether they are fertile or not.
Female chameleons can also retain sperm, so they can lay eggs about three weeks after the last time – but that really reduces their life span so I’m going to have to do some research on how maximize her life span while minimizing stress.
I took some pictures, but they didn’t turn out, and I don’t want to scare Skye any more, so no pictures today.
I’ll keep you updated though.
