>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.
Some of my lone pictus females who have lived with females all their lives have
occasionally laid eggs too, and my grandis female did as well while she still single
(all eggs clearly looked unfertile compared to the fertile eggs I've had)
>Given her size I don't see how she could have been close
> to mature, even if it were a parthenogenic species.
I unintentially bred one of my females because I raised her with her clutch mate-a
male-having forgotten that they could breed at such a young age. (What is it, 3-4
months for pictus?) She was definitely not full sized when she laid her first eggs,
and they were quite fertile (she escaped shortly thereafter, and I swear she must be
the female that I recovered a year later, only to be accidentally bred again because I
forgot that I still had any males left from last year's clutches and put her in with
one of them. She still isn't very big, and no matter how much I feed her her tail
doesn't get very fat, but she otherwise seems to be a rather healthy gecko. I am
curious to seem just how big she will get. She must be a pretty healthy specimen--I
caught her OUTSIDE (we had 7 cats at the time).
Do you suppose she laid any fertile eggs after she escaped? Hmm...
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