Hi Sarah, If the leo has eggs they will probably be very obvious in her stomach. The easiest way to see them is to put her in a transparent container, hold it up, and look at her stomach from underneath. The eggs will look like white oval shining through the bottom end of her stomach.
My females' behaviour changes when they are gravid. As they get nearer to laying eggs they spend a lot of time lying out in the open, and being more lazy than usual. A couple of days before laying they may spend a lot of time pacing about the tank in the evenings (I guess looking for a good laying site?), and usually they will go off their food a few days before too. Whats in the hide box that you've provided for her to lay in?. Most of my females are happy to lay in vermiculite, however I have one female that will only lay in moss... some can be quite fussy, they seem to be able to hold the eggs if they are not happy with the choice of laying places (if the vermiculite gets a bit dry, my females wait until I've moistened it again before laying). My fussy female reabsorbed her first clutch- I think because she didnt like the vermiculite, she happily laid her second clutch in moss when I gave her the choice- but there could have been another reason..... Best wishes, Pauline http://www.geocities.com/thegeckospot >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/11/02 06:11pm >>> Hello fellow gekkota fans, I have a female leopard gecko, that has been getting very very fat this past month. I thought that she might be pregnant, but I don't see eggs in her belly or should I say that I don't know how to look for eggs in her belly. Her behavior hasn't changed since then, except that she eats more heartily. I have her enclosed in with a big male leopard gecko, that's why I'm suspicious. I've even provided her with an extra hide box so that if she was pregnant, she would lay her eggs. I don't think she's egg-bound because her behavior hasn't changed. She eats and she drinks and prowls around at night. It could be a possibility though. I think obesity could be a possibility also because her girth hasn't changed, and her tail is this huge fat long thing. She lost her tail when she was younger. I see regular droppings of healthy feces too. Is their such thing as an obese gecko? She's only about 7 or 8 inches including tail and weighs about 75 grams. You usually expect that weight to be in a 10 to 11 inch leopard gecko. My male is huge too, but he's proportionate to his weight. He has very big muscles in his legs and arms. His tail is about an inch or more think. He's about 10 to 11 inches and weighs about 90 to 100 grams now. I think that's normal for a male leopard gecko. So the problem is I can't tell if it's just obesity or pregnancy? Can anyone tell me what to look for in a pregnant leopard gecko? Sincerely, Sarah _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ########################################################################### THE GLOBAL GECKO ASSOCIATION LISTSERV WebSite: www.gekkota.com Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ The GGA takes no responsibility for the contents of these postings. ########################################################################### ********************************************************************** Institute of Physics Registered charity No. 293851 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT, England IOP Publishing Limited Registered in England under Registration No 467514. Registered Office: Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE England This e-mail message has been checked by MIMEsweeper using F-Secure Anti-Virus for the presence of computer viruses. **********************************************************************
