Hi Pauline, I noticed that there is this big yellow/white area in her stomach with a vein coming up through the middle of her stomach. It looks like a bulge that wasn't there before. How many weeks or days does it take for a female to lay an egg?
In the hide box I put moss in it before and she wouldn't go in it. I didn't try vermiculite though. Now that you come to think about her behavior, she goes on top of her hide box that I provided her with and lies on top of it in the open. She just seems very very fat for a leopard gecko. The male in the tank sometimes lies in her hide box. I provided him with one, but he always go in her hide box. I see the female drinking a lot of water and licking the calcuim I provide her with. What's this about reabsorbing eggs. Will she reabsorb her eggs if I don't put vermicullite in her hide box or will she become egg bound? She's been like this for at least 3 weeks, and she's been getting bigger. Will nature take it's course soon? >From: "Pauline Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Gecko] A very fat female >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:25:33 +0100 > >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. >********************************************************************** > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
