> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:01:10 -0500
> From: twitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>A number of years ago, I had a Paroedura pictus female. She was far from
> mature when she died and I was never sure why she did. My question,
> though..
> maybe four months before she died, I swear she laid some sort of egg.
> I'd already had her for over a year, and she'd had no contact with any
> other geckos. Given her size I don't see how she could have been close
> to mature, even if it were a parthenogenic species. The "egg" looked
> very much like those laid by the brown anoles I grew up with in miami,
> although by the time I found it, it was sort of wrinkly.
> Anyway, sorry to break thread again, but I'd be really interested
> to hear something about this. Thanks!
Some reptiles, like some birds, will lay eggs without any contact with
a male. The eggs are, of course, infertile in non-parthenogenic species.
Some of my leos did this last summer. I didn't want to breed them until
they were a year old, but at 9 or 10 months, they started laying anyway,
so I borrowed a stud gecko for them, figuring that it was no more strain
on them to lay fertile eggs than infertile ones. They laid two or three
clutches each, and came out of it still with nice fat tails. They were
all at about 40g when they started. They haven't begun again yet this
year, they are still waiting for the days to get longer.
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