Action Jackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
I saw a old post about Furcifer bifidus pop up and I thought I’d update my experience with them.
After getting a couple clutches from my pair of Bifidus I rehomed them because I always need to keep my focus on my Parson’s breeding and try not to get sidetracked which it really hard to do
I had 7 babies hatch in the first clutch. I fairly quickly realized I would need to make adjustments to how I would need to keep the babies compared to how I raise my baby Calumma. I lost 4 babies from what I believe was to low humidity. We had been having very dry weather and although I was using live plants there just wasn’t enough humidity retention after misting apparently. I was also housing them together which probably didn’t help. So I separated them and added denser foliage and that seems to have done the trick.
I want to thank Michael Nash for bringing up the use of grasses in baby enclosures on one of Bill’s podcasts. I set up the new cage with some grass and it helped give the babies a place to go to get more humidity.
The last remaining babies seem to be doing fine. Also I checked my other clutch yesterday and the 14 eggs are still looking pretty good. They should hatch later this year. It’s a bit difficult for me to have to set them up this way since it’s different than how I raise my Parson’s but I’m doing my best. Looks like I’ll have quite a few babies again this year with these and a couple more Calumma clutches due to hatch.
After getting a couple clutches from my pair of Bifidus I rehomed them because I always need to keep my focus on my Parson’s breeding and try not to get sidetracked which it really hard to do
I had 7 babies hatch in the first clutch. I fairly quickly realized I would need to make adjustments to how I would need to keep the babies compared to how I raise my baby Calumma. I lost 4 babies from what I believe was to low humidity. We had been having very dry weather and although I was using live plants there just wasn’t enough humidity retention after misting apparently. I was also housing them together which probably didn’t help. So I separated them and added denser foliage and that seems to have done the trick.
I want to thank Michael Nash for bringing up the use of grasses in baby enclosures on one of Bill’s podcasts. I set up the new cage with some grass and it helped give the babies a place to go to get more humidity.
The last remaining babies seem to be doing fine. Also I checked my other clutch yesterday and the 14 eggs are still looking pretty good. They should hatch later this year. It’s a bit difficult for me to have to set them up this way since it’s different than how I raise my Parson’s but I’m doing my best. Looks like I’ll have quite a few babies again this year with these and a couple more Calumma clutches due to hatch.
