Is he alive or not ? Baby panther chameleon

[Cameleon987]

Hello,
I need advice please.
2 days now that my baby chameleon is at this state. Is he alive or not.
He do not move. Do I need to wait ? How many Time ?
thank you for your help .

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

In most cases when a baby is rescued out of the egg they do not survive. This picture is not very clear/it is blurry! It would help if it was a crisply focused picture. The baby does look moist so should be fine if it is still alive. You want to keep the humidity up, so leave the lid on. They can take quite a few days from when they pip to come out.

 

[Cameleon987]

Ok thank you, i will add water and wait. Thank you Matt

 

[Cameleon987]

Matt, i just added water and took a better picture. What do you think ?

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

The egg shell does not look healthy. It also does not look like the chameleon pipped the egg but rather looks like you opened the egg?

 

[Brodybreaux25]

For comparison, this is the star pattern one would expect to see on the end of the egg.

 

[JoshD49]

For comparison, this is the star pattern one would expect to see on the end of the egg.View attachment 236326

Oh man these guys are adorable!

A lot of people seem to think the babies need help. I assume this comes from the python ideology of cutting the eggs or what but from a small amount of reading, chams do not need help and its actually better for them to do this alone.

Thanks
Josh

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

For comparison, this is the star pattern one would expect to see on the end of the egg.View attachment 236326

Nice picture! You should enter it in to the photo contest!

 

[JoshD49]

We are hijacking this post but yeah that photo would get my vote for sure. just amazing!

 

[Brodybreaux25]

Nice picture! You should enter it in to the photo contest!

Admins would just cut it in half again...

 

[Brodybreaux25]

... and not my photo

 

[BuyAChameleon]

As Matt said I wouldn't do anything other than wait, don't touch no matter how tempting.

In most cases when a baby is rescued out of the egg they do not survive. This picture is not very clear/it is blurry! It would help if it was a crisply focused picture. The baby does look moist so should be fine if it is still alive. You want to keep the humidity up, so leave the lid on. They can take quite a few days from when they pip to come out.

 

[arizona28613]

Any updates?