calumma brevicornis

This morning I noticed three baby chams inside one of the egg boxes--I pulled the box out, and saw that it was one of our Calumma brevicornis clutches. It was exciting, but the more I look at them, I wonder if I've somehow misidentified the eggs (not sure how that could happen). The reason...

One of my female brevicornis laid a good-sized clutch of 32 eggs today. This is the largest clutch I've received from a brev, although it was the result of captive breeding so that is most certainly why. I bred a pair in early February, and she laid around six weeks later I believe, but her...

I was feeding the chams today and I noticed one of my female brevs was a really vibrant yellow--they sure do change colors a lot, and I'm still learning what they mean (gravid, receptive, stressed, etc). I'm trying to map it out. But, she's beautiful.

I've become quite fond of Calumma brevicornis over the past few months, for a litany of reasons, and have decided I'm going to continue to attempt to breed this species. I now have 3.4 at our facility. I received eggs from a captive breeding about a month ago, but today I received more eggs...

Yesterday my gravid female laid her clutch--she had locked with one of my males on Feb. 10th, so about a 44 day gestation. The eggs look ok, smaller than I had anticipated... Here's a picture of the pair locking on Feb. 10th...

Today my pair of Calumma brevicornis locked, so I'm very pleased. Not the greatest picture quality, but I didn't want to disturb them too much. This photograph was near the end--it lasted about 20-30 minutes. Not bad.

Here are some hand-picked chams that I was able to procure from a very recent Madagascar shipment. I took a few pictures as I was unpacking them this evening--I'll post better pictures once they are acclimated and better hydrated. Male O'Shaughnessy (sole male)... Female O'Shaughnessy...