- Beardie name(s)
- Godzilla and Mothra
I am in need of some advice. This might be long, sorry!
We adopted a female beardie on Saturday and unexpectedly she is full of eggs. I can see the eggs by looking at her belly.
The person who had her before let her and another of their beardies mate so I’m assuming these are fertile eggs, I don’t know if that makes much difference to how they lay them. He said she’d previously laid two clutches with no issue.
On Monday her vent was suddenly looking sort of swollen and I could see white. I put her in her lay box (it’s the box she previously laid in, the guy gave it to us) and she laid one egg. I left her in there and checked on her every couple of hours but she was just basking. I put her back in her viv with largest dig/lay box I could. During the night she laid two eggs just on the floor of her viv and laid two more early Tuesday morning. She’s been in her lay box but isn’t digging at all.
Each time she’s been out of the box I’ve reorganised it following YouTube tutorials in case she just didn’t like the box.
Should I be worried about her becoming egg bound and be trying to encourage her to lay?
Should I try a bath and putting her back in the lay box?
Could the move of home (she’s in the same viv) have caused her to start laying earlier than she should?
Am I disturbing her too much?
Everything I’ve read online says she’ll be digging to indicate she’s ready to lay, but she’s not at all.
She’s eating fine and drinking a little.
Everything I’ve done so far has been from looking online to find advice. I’m super stressed about getting this right.
I don’t know if she’s the healthiest dragon, she lived without any uvb lighting.
We adopted a female beardie on Saturday and unexpectedly she is full of eggs. I can see the eggs by looking at her belly.
The person who had her before let her and another of their beardies mate so I’m assuming these are fertile eggs, I don’t know if that makes much difference to how they lay them. He said she’d previously laid two clutches with no issue.
On Monday her vent was suddenly looking sort of swollen and I could see white. I put her in her lay box (it’s the box she previously laid in, the guy gave it to us) and she laid one egg. I left her in there and checked on her every couple of hours but she was just basking. I put her back in her viv with largest dig/lay box I could. During the night she laid two eggs just on the floor of her viv and laid two more early Tuesday morning. She’s been in her lay box but isn’t digging at all.
Each time she’s been out of the box I’ve reorganised it following YouTube tutorials in case she just didn’t like the box.
Should I be worried about her becoming egg bound and be trying to encourage her to lay?
Should I try a bath and putting her back in the lay box?
Could the move of home (she’s in the same viv) have caused her to start laying earlier than she should?
Am I disturbing her too much?
Everything I’ve read online says she’ll be digging to indicate she’s ready to lay, but she’s not at all.
She’s eating fine and drinking a little.
Everything I’ve done so far has been from looking online to find advice. I’m super stressed about getting this right.
I don’t know if she’s the healthiest dragon, she lived without any uvb lighting.
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