December 2, 2002 I looked for Tiger but couldn't find her.  Then I looked in her laying bucket and found her wet muddy tail.  She was just finishing laying her eggs.  You can't disturb your Chameleon when she's laying eggs so this one picture of her tail is all we get.

You must allow your Chameleon to finish laying her eggs.  If you disturb her or remove the eggs before she's finished then she will become neurotic looking for her nest and trying to re-burry the eggs over and over again.  Once she's done, you have about 10 to 12 hours to remove the eggs and place them in an incubation box.  If you move the eggs after that time you run the risk of disturbing the embryo.  To minimize that risk, keep the egg the same way up and move it as carefully as possible.

As we carefully excavated the nest, we found what we thought was a small clutch of eggs.  With extreme caution we managed to move the dirt away from the clutch we found it was actually a very respectable size!  36 eggs!!  You can see them in the moist vermiculite.

Now the hard part.  Waiting 7 to 11 months for the babies to hatch.  That's going to be one very long wait.  You do have to add a bit of moisture with a misting bottle now and again but despite the temptation, you have to be ever so careful not to disturb the eggs.