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Another update and pics: female is showing very noticeable egg bumps and I imagine it won't be long before she starts digging. Anyone know average clutch size for these guys? I'm guessing 9-12.

Update on my pair: These have quickly become my favorite chams in my collection. They just exude personality and are the most cooperative captives. After a brief period of settling in they are now really taking to their enclosure, they eat extremely well, drink as soon as they get misted, and...

Keep in mind panther eggs are better off at much cooler temps than veiled eggs. Where the reptibator only heats it will be of minimal use for panther eggs. And don't bother buying that dangerous piece of junk incubator from *the other company* that claims to heat and cool. Best bet is room temp...

The male. Still a bit skinny but quickly putting on weight.

Photo Update Well it's about 2 weeks since I got the pair and they're doing really well. I think they just needed more of a 'settling in' period than I'm used to but now that they're used to their enclosures and have their own little routines they're eating much better. Here's a quick...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try upping their basking area temps a bit- I'm used to montiums so I was thinking these guys would be similar. I had read somewhere that they prefer flies, I'll have to give that a shot too. Anyone have a good source for blue bottles? It's been ages since I've...

Hey all, Picked up a pair of K. boehmei last weekend. Not a species I'm too familiar with but I couldn't resist the chance to get a new montane species to work with and they just looked great. They seem to be settling in to their respective enclosures well (2x 38g reptariums, insulated...

Just had a very similar problem. My female failed to lay the first time and second time she dug a tunnel, but seemed ok otherwise. after a week I put her in a trash barrel egg laying setup and over the course of a couple days she laid most of the eggs then dropped the last few in her cage. I...

thanks Showjet. Keep in touch and let me know when your Montiums hatch out. Maybe we can trade out a few and keep those bloodlines diverse.

Thanks Chris. Do they typically lay in a fairly shallow tunnel? That pic makes it look like they only dig just below the surface to lay, which would explain why my last one laid in moss even when provided with a laying bin.

I have a gravid female T. montium and I think she's getting ready. The last time I had a montium lay on me I gave her a good-size egg laying bin but she ended up laying all the eggs under some moss on the bottom of her enclosure. Does anyone have experience with this species or any...

I just got a bunch of tanzania stuff in but did not import it directly. Not sure how it came out but it was through a fairly reputable importer so I would think that some animals made it out legally. We have T. montiums, R. brevicaudatus, and several other herp species native to...

Gacpro, so sorry for your loss. Egg laying can be an immensely stressful process for those female chams, and sometimes it's just too much for them. Very sad. Jann, my female finally laid the majority of her clutch last week. She was in the trash barrel laying box for 4 days straight before...

Update: She has not laid any eggs yet, and she seems to have stopped digging for the moment (no digging since early yesterday afternoon). She also took a cricket I threw in with her as an experiment and now she seems to be eating/drinking normally. I've put her back in her enclosure and gave her...

I think so. Like I said I haven't really had a chance to look in at her very much as I'm trying to just let her do her thing. Just by looking at her briefly, I can't be sure if she laid her clutch or not (she was kinda chunky to begin with).

Yes, she's in an almost fully covered, opaque 40gal trash barrel. I peeked in this afternoon and she had dug and filled in yet another tunnel, so hopefully she laid them but I don't want to disrupt her in case she's not finished.

She looks fine, is drinking, etc. but she started digging Sunday (maybe Saturday) and still hasn't laid her clutch. She has no interest in food (but that's normal for a female getting ready to lay IME) but is otherwise alert, active, and shows no sign of ill health. I just worry that it's been...

Anyone? at what point should I be worried?

My gravid female panther started digging around sunday. She was given a 14x14" pot with my usual mix of 65/35 topsoil/playsand and dug it all up over the next several days, but no eggs. Thinking she wasn't happy with the laying bin, I set her up in a trash barrel on Tuesday with over 2' of...