Veiled Female Seems Weak, Won't Move or Eat

[kinyonga]

Please put a container of washed playsand at least 12" deep by 12" by 8" full of moistened washed playsand in her cage so she has a place to dig to show you when she's ready to lay eggs. Make sure she can get to it.
Once she starts digging make sure she doesn't see you watching her or she will abandon the hole. If it happens often enough she can become eggbound. She may dig several holes but should finally pick one and keep digging it until she is happy with it. She should then turn around and lay the eggs. It will likely be in the evening. She should then fill in the hole and tamp it down and return to the branches hungry and thirsty. Good luck.

 

[ashmichaelson]

@kinyonga Got it. I hope she doesn't lay soon because she's still very weak. It does feel good to know ALL of what is going on and not just half of the story. I also have an old blanket I'll put over her cage so that I can still be in the room (she's in my room and I spend a lot of time in there). Now I know what to do for next time. Thanks so much!

 

[kinyonga]

You're welcome. Good luck!

 

[ashmichaelson]

Update: So I didn't want to try and figure out a new arrangement for Pascal's basking light, so instead of moving all of her stuff to the floor of her cage I kind of moved everything up. I moved a few vines and things out to make this easier to do, put a 13" tall laying bin into the center of her cage, and then I stuffed old towels around it so that she can't fall and land on the hard cage floor again. I'll attach a picture of my arrangement. (For the record, I know that she's outgrown this cage. If she makes it through this whole ordeal, I'll buy her a bigger cage.)
My mother just sent me a picture of Pascal in the corner of the cage sitting on the top of the towels, I assume that she fell off her basking spot and moved underneath some branches to escape the heat. It's good to know that the towels are serving their purpose, but my mother also mentioned that it looks like she's stuck. I'm glad it's almost the weekend so that I can get her unstuck without having to come home from work and help her. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can make this or another arrangement easier for her to move around? Thanks you guys!

 

[ashmichaelson]

Okay guys, this situation has gotten a little more worrying. Since we've found out that Pascal has ALL THE EGGS in her body I've made sure that there's a laying bin in her cage and a way that said laying bin is accessible. She hasn't shown signs of being ready to lay and the vet said she may not be quite ready yet (she also said there wasn't any sign of egg binding) but I fear that she may/already is egg bound due to the fact that she is calcium deficient and needs assistance to get around her cage. However, I tried placing her directly into her laying bin, and she immediately starts trying to get out. She hasn't eaten all weekend and I have to squirt little bits of water into her mouth to get her to drink. I also do this with a drop of liquid calcium once a day. She just looks so done with being sick and I don't know how to help her anymore. I'm calling the vet today and hopefully we'll have another course of action. Any suggestions please? This is so stressful and I just want her to START getting better.

 

[Virgil1972]

I have not had to deal with a female cham with egg problems before so I have no suggestions there but one suggestion I do have is not to give up. Getting better takes time unless your cham is an X-Man it will take a while. Just hang in there and keep doing whatever you can.

 

[Pitcard]

Try digging a hole in the bin for her and putting a vine down into it for her. They like to lay around roots as well, so having a plant or a few sticks in the bin in a cluster can help as well.

I recently saw my girl with her biggest clutch yet and she was too fat to dig more than and inch before giving up and looking for food. Dug her a hole and the eggs were out the next day.

Hope this helps with your girl. Keep trying, she appreciates it!