after reading the the following I realized that my words were a little unclear,
to clarify:
She laid in the four inch diam. bamboo, most likely a few weeks ago.
she died in the two and a half inch tube, in the process of trying to get in position to lay, she usually had no trouble backing out but she must have turned around to get into vent down position.
I have had hypocalcemic uros before, I don't think this was the case with her, this was a purely mechanical death i.e. she got her head stuck, we actually had to split the bamboo to extract her as it was impossible to unwedge her otherwise, her circulation was cut off as the tip of the tail had turned grey and hard, also the same around her sinuses, definitly a traumatic physical death as her jaw was twisted from struggling so hard.
the moral: wrong size of bamboo, and I did not follow my insticts and check on her when I thought it odd that she was not out and about later that same night.
I wrote:
Julie wrote:The length of bamboo in her original cage had a much greater diameter, I would say four inches(the one that trapped her was about two and a half), so I took a peek down the tube, THREE eggs dude!!
I'll bet she went hypocalcemic. Since she laid eggs in their successfully she did not have any trouble getting out of the bamboo. I have lost so many Uro females to hypocalcemia! This is even with full spectrum lighting and supplementing with Mineral I with D3 everytime.
I'm truly excited that you had such success with yours, I suppose there is so little available info out there from people that one easily gets the impression breeding these guys (successfully) is mostly unexplored territory, 17 really would be something, I'm crossing my fingers that at least one of these eggs will come out as a female, what was your sex ratio like judging by the stripes?
I would love to get in touch with someone that is continuing to work with this species and share notes and possibly offspring, any pointers?
My tip for keeping this species real healthy is Mad. hissing roaches, the physical change in there health after a few weeks of adding these to there diet becomes visually apparent, I would speculate that they are a natural food item in the wild, or at least something similar.
I shall try your tip with the cotton wool, my feeling is to keep them away from any moisture but adding extra humidity is a good suggestion.
Thanks again, Orion.
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