[strikedistance]

Just found a batch of eggs in my banded cage all dried up. What do you guys use for your bandeds to lay in?
Thanks,
Bruce

[Coleonyx]

vermiculite, spaghnum moss, or damp sand.

[strikedistance]

where?

[Coleonyx]

A lidded delicup with a hole cut into the side. They use it almost everytime, but sometimes I find eggs under the water bowl.

[Nicke]

I use perlite to my bandeds but have used vermiculite and damp sand as well. It has all worked fine.

Right now I have a problem with an eggbound female. Don´t know why really. This is the first time it has happened to one of my animals. I don´t think it depends on the laying substrate though.

[Coleonyx]

I've lost a couple to eggbound as well, and I have a female with the problem right now. I don't know what the cause is.

[Nicke]

It really sucks anyway. Not much you can do about it and it feels VERY frustrating just having to watch an animal dying.

I'm into kind of a last resort now. My wife, being a doctor, will bring home the finest syringes and needles she can find at work and I will try to suck some of the yolk out of the egg while it´s still inside the female. If it works she will probably be able to pass the eggs and survive and if it doesn´t she will die anyway. I think it´s worth a chance if I can save her because she really looks great.

I guess I will have to be, to say the least, very careful while doing it.

[Coleonyx]

One thing I've done with a desceased eggbound female was to cut out the eggs and incubate them.

[Nicke]

Did it work? I hade the same idea but figured that if the female was dead then the eggs would be dead as well. One hell of a dilemma.

Try to help her pass the eggs or let her die and incubate the eggs? Phew! Some choice.....

[Coleonyx]

It worked 2 out of the three times I tried it. On the third, I think that they were too underdeveloped. The needle trick seems to do better in larger geckos.