Wow 18!?!! That is so amazing! Id love to see pics of your boy when he was up there in age in age if you ever feel like posting any or sending any ??!! Hats off to him and you! I sure that was really hard to handle - I’m so sorry. It’s also so wonderful too that he was able to live out that many years with you
My girl is 10 and half and I worry all the time about her age - she’s definitely slowed down in her activity levels since she hit the 10 year mark - but she seems to be in the same good health and I swear she gets more beautiful with time - seeing the words “18 years” was like a rush of hope for me.
As far as a female laying eggs - yeah - not all females will lay. My girl has never laid a single egg in her 10.5 years - so that’s one you’ll just never truly know until it happens or it doesn’t. I find it to be a super fascinating topic and would love to know the exact science behind the selection of why some do and why some don’t, maybe I should start a thread to get a poll going - that would be so interesting.
I hope you’re new dragon journey goes well! Female dragons are just so super special and I’m partial to them, so yay for you! Sounds like your last dragon was really taken care of, so I would pretty much do exactly what you did before!