Baby Mt Meru's

[OldChamKeeper]

Faliure.


I've been too mad for the last two weeks to come post but I lost both babies.


The smaller of the two, named longshot, was starting to keep it's eyes closed. Thinking it could be a possible sign of a Vit A issue I picked up a liquid supplement.

Over three days it deteriorated and passed. The other stayed healthy and was growing fast. Eating quite literally anything...fruitflies, silkworms, crickets.

I thought, here's where the stupidity kicks in once again showing now matter your experience or age you can still shoot yourself in the foot, that I should give a drop to the healthy one. I did.

I came back in 10 mins and found him deceased. Apparently I drowned the little fellow with the drop.


I was damn near too ashamed to even post. I've been away from the baby chams too long... I hate the learning curve.


Both adults are thriving, I separated them a long time back after seeing the female gape and hiss and at the male a few times. These animals really need to be kept solo.

They mated. I expect new babies in about 5 months, around Aug I would guess.

 

[okiroo]

Faliure.


I've been too mad for the last two weeks to come post but I lost both babies.


The smaller of the two, named longshot, was starting to keep it's eyes closed. Thinking it could be a possible sign of a Vit A issue I picked up a liquid supplement.

Over three days it deteriorated and passed. The other stayed healthy and was growing fast. Eating quite literally anything...fruitflies, silkworms, crickets.

I thought, here's where the stupidity kicks in once again showing now matter your experience or age you can still shoot yourself in the foot, that I should give a drop to the healthy one. I did.

I came back in 10 mins and found him deceased. Apparently I drowned the little fellow with the drop.


I was damn near too ashamed to even post. I've been away from the baby chams too long... I hate the learning curve.


Both adults are thriving, I separated them a long time back after seeing the female gape and hiss and at the male a few times. These animals really need to be kept solo.

They mated. I expect new babies in about 5 months, around Aug I would guess.

im so sorry

 

[coldbloodedAL]

I am so sorry to hear that.

 

[laurie]

Congrats on them doing well!

Ill forgive you for no pics, but when you have a herd of them, keep me in mind?

EDIT: Baaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your in canada

Sweetie that is Ontario , CALIFORNIA in this case. But maybe if I had not told you it would just have been the two of us wanting them.

 

[Action Jackson]

Wow, what a bummer. Sorry to hear that. I've been putting mine outside hoping it helps my female have a strong clutch.

 

[laurie]

I am so sorry to hear you lost them both. Things will go a lot better when Mama is ready and in condition for babies.

 

[anysign]

My condolences. In my experience, less is more with the little ones. Plenty of water, sunlight & pinhead crickets is the best I've been able to do.

I've had really good luck w/ an inverted small (12" diameter x 18" tall) wire mesh office trashcan w/ a thin leaved plastic plant wired inside. You can have 30-40 in there at once (when they're new, a bunch together seems to give them confidence; they usually stay close together in groups), and it's easy to move the whole thing from a plastic bin with 500 or so pinheads in the bottom of it, to outside in the sun w/ a thin piece of plywood for the bottom, using a patio mister (Arizona mister) to get them good and wet for at least a couple hours a day. The solid ring and bottom of the trashcan becomes the top when inverted, giving them shade/shelter when they've had enough light and water - when they all move up to the top, I move them back to the cricket bin. The baby crickets stay on the bottom of the bin (where their food is; I guess a starving cricket might gnaw on a living animal, but I just feed mine, and have never observed it), and the chams move down & feed at their leisure. It takes a group of (30) about 4-5 days to wipe out the 500 crickets. They watch each other more than anything else, and take their cues from their siblings to go after food & water. I've never given my Jackson's supplements - I just vary what I give the insects to eat - and have had adults last 6-7 years. - Brian