hi again i am looking to what i can use as a substrate as i look one place get told bark is bad and to use sandy sort or substrates i look another and i am told to use bark :( i am confused and i cant just leave her without it just doesnt look right
also what shall i use for her to lay her eggs in as she is looking like she is ready to drop them :) infertile ones of course
well im not a expert on chams but i do know a bit about them and at the rep shop i work in he uses orchid bark for substrate and as for the eggs use quite a large tub big enough for her to get her whole body in and you will need to put some fine vermiculite at the bottom fill half of the tub up with it and you need to make it moist enough that u can squeeze it into a ball so it holds its shape and water isnt dripping out of it. This is so she can dig - which she will want to do before she lays any eggs.
IF she does not have a comfortable place to lay her eggs she could ( dont qoute me) possibly become eggbound. Cham eggs are very small and she can lay upto 40 eggs over a period of a few days. So jsut watch out for signs. IF she lays them elsewhere its not a problem if they are infertile.
If this is not correct im sure someone will correct me.
George
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bitesnstrikes the shop i work in always uses vermiculite but as i said im not an expert im just giving you information i know lol hope it helps you anyways.
George
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i used to use a bucket for a laying sit as they are deep and mine always seemed to dig deeper than your bog standard tub and then incubated them in vermiculite and waited six months for they to hatch!!fine vermiculite not the course stuff! Bedding can be a funnything i used coure orchid bark as its not easily ingested but to cmbat that i kept feeding bowls off the ground and idividually feed items so there not much chance of them getting substrate in their mouth!! hoe there is some help there good luck
yer i was starting to think bucket i was told a deep pot but she just aint interested in that so i am putting the bucket in today. i have the food dish off the floor anyway just to make it a bit easier for her :) thnks
