While we've been keeping our chams almost entirely on a budget (i.e. in bird cages with poked-hole drippers, $5 Wal-Mart money trees, and lighting systems completely supplied by Lowe's) our veileds, Kraken and Keallach, which we've raised almost entirely on the collective wisdom of this forum...
I have had a clutch of 29 Veiled eggs incubating for about 6 months now, and the other day one of the eggs was slit open, but there was no sign of any baby. Curious, and thinking it was just infertile, i opened it up to see a baby (!) that was definitely not ready to hatch, it was pink and there...
So my 2 new veiled babies (1 male, 1 female) are doing something i've never seen. They're keeping their mouths open for a few seconds several times a day. they are just under a month old, usually a strong neon green. The enclosure is 3 ft high by 19" wide by 19" deep. i mist them 3 times a...
A pair of 1 day neonates attempting to get some sleep (they are actually both males)...these guys are so cute as babies...but will eventually transform into hulking "Mungs" in no time ("Mung" is the name of their daddy)