Jeff found her when he went to feed her.

I’m not sure what happened.

She was eating and drinking, and acting like she always acted, so we had no idea that anything was wrong.

I’ve heard that female chameleons usually live about 2 years in the wild, although they usually live longer in captivity.

Of course even though we tried to feed Skye a restricted diet so that she wouldn’t produce eggs,  she laid 4 clutches of eggs, so I’m sure that took a toll on her poor little body.

I still keep walking in the room expecting to see her.

I finally took a picture of Skye yesterday when I went in to water her for the second time of the day.

I keep wanting to go and check on her to make sure she is ok, but I don’t want to bother her too much.

She really doesn’t seem to mind when we are in the room, especially when we are bearing food, but I’m still tiptoing around her since she laid eggs.

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.

Here’s a picture of Skye hanging out.

This is what she’s usually doing when we go in the room to check on her.

Our chameleons are in a separate room, because it’s a little easier to control the temperature and the humidity in there.