Gravid female?

[norea]

HI ALL! SOOO EXCITED. I just bought a new leopard gecko... according to the seller its morph is HOT SHTCT. and its about a year old... :yahoo:

I DIDNT KNOW LEO GECKOS COULD GROW SO HUGE! :shock:

Ok the thing is this... when i carried her there is this weird feeling near the sides of her body... kinda "hard" which i have never felt before with my other leo. she weighs about 64.3 grams. is that how a gravid female feels like?

 

[norea]

ok i was worried the "hard feeling" might be substrate ingestion but i turned her over and felt her belly , it was soft and normal. on second thought i think its just an adult...or maybe shes obese... but i was told that the last time she mated was about a month or so ago.

 

[Mardy]

Females will store sperm, so if she was mated a month ago, it's likely she will have eggs sooner or later. Best read up about it now so you are prepared for it.

 

[norea]

yes yes... hopefully its gravid but so far i see no signs of eggs

 

[NosiphoGeckos]

She does look very big, I dont have that much experience with geckos but she looks like my SHTCT did before she laid her first clutch of eggs. Either that or shes just really fat!

 

[Saskia]

If you post a pic of her belly it could be easy to tell if she is gravid :biggrin:

 

[norea]

ok will do saskia check back soon

 

[norea]

is this angle ok?

 

[Allee Toler]

Pull her back legs so they go up to her tail, and lift her, gently bending her back so any eggs will be pushed to her belly. If you see two white or pink circles, she's gravid.

 

[Saskia]

In that pic it's hard to see, do as allee said and post another pic

 

[Rocsteady1029]

Shes pretty! Give her a warm soak to try and get that skin stuck on her toes off. But yeah its too hard to tell in that pic if she is gravid.

 

[norea]

she laid a clutch yesterday!!! :/

 

[norea]

my leo eggs feels... soft even after more than 12 hours... how do i tell whether it is fertile or not? btw she did a good job protecting her eggs... i hope its viable...

 

[Saskia]

Soft like how??? can you easily dent them??? or soft like marshmellow soft??

 

[norea]

hmm when i transfered them i would say they werent marshmallow soft....much softer...

 

[norea]

bout 8 hrs ago...:?

 

[Saskia]

Hun, they look infertile to me they shouldn't be deflated and yellowish, leave them in the incubator for a couple of days and keep a close eye on them

 

[norea]

noo....