Amel Oedura Castelnaui egg...

[MTH]

Stupid me...I knew my female Amel Oedura Castelnaui was just about ready to drop her eggs so last night I stuck a nest box in her cage for her. She immediately went into the nest box digging around. This morning I went to check on her. She was outside of the nest box and I could still see the hint of eggs in her so I figured she hasn't laid them yet. I was worried about the lack of moisture in the box so decided to add a little more water in it and mix the material up to evenly distribute the moisture. Well low and behold she laid one of her eggs. I believe she still has another in her from the color of her abdomen. In any case I have a feeling I rolled the egg around while mixing the contents of the box around. I went ahead and set the egg up so now its just a waiting game to see if its good or not. Chalk it up to carelessness.

 

[clarksgeckos]

Mark,

It should be fine as it was probably still setting up if you rolled it. The thing that I would be worried about is a egg bound female. Them laying eggs at different times if not a good thing. She should have laid both eggs together all at once and covered them up.

Best of luck with that.

Your friend,
Clark Tucker
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[MTH]

I was hoping someone would say that. I checked the nest box once more to see if I missed the second egg. Came up with nothing so either she still has it in her or hopefully this was a one egg clutch. It is her first clutch of this season so we'll see.

 

[clarksgeckos]

Mark,

It is not uncommon for geckos to have single egg first clutches. To my knowledge there is not much that can be safely done for a egg bound female gecko.

Your friend,
Clark

 

[PassPort]

Clark,
I know you have a lot of experience with this species, could you maybe lend me some advice? I keep getting bad clutches from my females. They were cooled properly and my pairs are both about 2-3 yrs old. I can't figure it out, any ideas?