Didn't hear back from the breeder. 
I sent an email, though. Soon I'll try an actual phone call.
Eggs are now 5 weeks old. All, including two that I dropped when transferring them from dirt to vermiculite, are white, full, and round. No mold, no collapsing. One appears yellowish, but that one was more buried in the soil I originally had them incubating in and it's only yellow where the dirt was.
So I mean, I totally think it's cool beans that these eggs are doing well and it's also crazy how everything has happened. I bought a female chameleon at the end of February, turns out she was gravid, bought a male with a disabled tongue right before I realized she really was gravid (I thought she was fat and dark because she was pissed off at being rehomed), picked up the male two days before she laid, and then the eggs turn out seemingly fertile!
When I bought her I was told she was 7 months old, I was happy with this because I had thoughts of breeding, but figured her age would give me plenty of time to get used to chameleons and look for a male before mating her. I was wrong.
Just two and a half months ago I was checking every two seconds because I thought she was dead and misting her crappily designed enclosure with a $1 spray bottle by hand, and had to check online everytime she pooped/ate/basked/moved to figure out if she was behaving normally or not.
I've learned so very much in this time and most all of it came from this forum. It feels like it's been much longer. I picked up the male knowing he'd sustained a tongue injury as a baby (his tongue only goes out a little bit and his accuracy is pretty awful) and by the time I got him I felt well prepared to handle that. After some feeder cup trial and error, I've been able to get him to eat a selection of feeders and he's grown quite a bit since I got him.
I think this may have been redundant with me mentioning Priscilla and the eggs and his tongue before but it just hit me today how short of an amount of time I've been keeping chams. AND, I'd never owned a reptile before them.
I'm really proud of myself but I still visit these forums on a daily basis to check the new posts and pick up tidbits of information and share my experience. I will say though, that these days I'm becoming really comfortable and at ease with the whole process of taking care of them without needing to reference a post every time I hit the petstore to make sure I don't do something wrong.
I'm considering picking up a few more.
I sent an email, though. Soon I'll try an actual phone call.Eggs are now 5 weeks old. All, including two that I dropped when transferring them from dirt to vermiculite, are white, full, and round. No mold, no collapsing. One appears yellowish, but that one was more buried in the soil I originally had them incubating in and it's only yellow where the dirt was.
So I mean, I totally think it's cool beans that these eggs are doing well and it's also crazy how everything has happened. I bought a female chameleon at the end of February, turns out she was gravid, bought a male with a disabled tongue right before I realized she really was gravid (I thought she was fat and dark because she was pissed off at being rehomed), picked up the male two days before she laid, and then the eggs turn out seemingly fertile!
When I bought her I was told she was 7 months old, I was happy with this because I had thoughts of breeding, but figured her age would give me plenty of time to get used to chameleons and look for a male before mating her. I was wrong.
Just two and a half months ago I was checking every two seconds because I thought she was dead and misting her crappily designed enclosure with a $1 spray bottle by hand, and had to check online everytime she pooped/ate/basked/moved to figure out if she was behaving normally or not.
I've learned so very much in this time and most all of it came from this forum. It feels like it's been much longer. I picked up the male knowing he'd sustained a tongue injury as a baby (his tongue only goes out a little bit and his accuracy is pretty awful) and by the time I got him I felt well prepared to handle that. After some feeder cup trial and error, I've been able to get him to eat a selection of feeders and he's grown quite a bit since I got him.
I think this may have been redundant with me mentioning Priscilla and the eggs and his tongue before but it just hit me today how short of an amount of time I've been keeping chams. AND, I'd never owned a reptile before them.
I'm really proud of myself but I still visit these forums on a daily basis to check the new posts and pick up tidbits of information and share my experience. I will say though, that these days I'm becoming really comfortable and at ease with the whole process of taking care of them without needing to reference a post every time I hit the petstore to make sure I don't do something wrong.
I'm considering picking up a few more.
