Greetings,
Didn't think my first post on these forums would be in this section, but here we go! I have never kept any reptile before. I kept my hands wet in aquariums for years and decided it would be a great experience for me and my 4 year old son to keep a Leopard Gecko. March 2nd we went down to our reptile shop and got everything and picked up a female adult tangerine morph leopard gecko. My son named her Cutie :lol:
She lives in a Exo Terra 24 X 18 X 12 with a hot moist hide (she loves it) and a cool hide on the other side. Her hot side ranges from 90-92, and the cool side is about 74 with it falling a bit at night. Humidity is about 35% and falls to the high 20's at night. Husbandry we clean her poo's daily and her water bowl is changed out with some RO water.
She acclimated very quickly the 3rd day she was eating from my hand. She ate about 2-3 mealworms a day until Thursday she refused to eat. Friday night I noticed she was a bit wide in her stomach and to be honest I was a bit worried she might have a impaction. I only had mealworms and wanted to add Dubia roaches and butterworms for a weekly treat. I picked up butterworms but they were out of stock on the roaches. I offered the butterworms hoping this would entice her appetite and she still turned her nose the other way. Anyways, fast forward to today I come home and find two eggs in her hide! A quick Google search to see if these were fertile was "...a veiny red circle with a red dot..." used my my camera phone light and well and behold a veiny red circle with a red dot in the middle on both eggs. Questions...
What do I do now? I don't know much of her history just her morph. I am literally unprepared and have nothing to take care of these little eggs. I was going to call my reptile store as I am sure they would take them in. Also, she seems okay afterwards she walked around when I had her hide off. I did offer some more butterworms and she still doesn't want to eat. I'll give them a good calcium dusting and put them back in her dish for tonight. She has to be low on cal cause these eggs are huge! I am still shocked I couldn't believe my eyes! Really cool.
I've attached a picture of her and her egg. When i took the picture i thought it was only 1, but she is laying over another one.
Jeff
Didn't think my first post on these forums would be in this section, but here we go! I have never kept any reptile before. I kept my hands wet in aquariums for years and decided it would be a great experience for me and my 4 year old son to keep a Leopard Gecko. March 2nd we went down to our reptile shop and got everything and picked up a female adult tangerine morph leopard gecko. My son named her Cutie :lol:
She lives in a Exo Terra 24 X 18 X 12 with a hot moist hide (she loves it) and a cool hide on the other side. Her hot side ranges from 90-92, and the cool side is about 74 with it falling a bit at night. Humidity is about 35% and falls to the high 20's at night. Husbandry we clean her poo's daily and her water bowl is changed out with some RO water.
She acclimated very quickly the 3rd day she was eating from my hand. She ate about 2-3 mealworms a day until Thursday she refused to eat. Friday night I noticed she was a bit wide in her stomach and to be honest I was a bit worried she might have a impaction. I only had mealworms and wanted to add Dubia roaches and butterworms for a weekly treat. I picked up butterworms but they were out of stock on the roaches. I offered the butterworms hoping this would entice her appetite and she still turned her nose the other way. Anyways, fast forward to today I come home and find two eggs in her hide! A quick Google search to see if these were fertile was "...a veiny red circle with a red dot..." used my my camera phone light and well and behold a veiny red circle with a red dot in the middle on both eggs. Questions...
What do I do now? I don't know much of her history just her morph. I am literally unprepared and have nothing to take care of these little eggs. I was going to call my reptile store as I am sure they would take them in. Also, she seems okay afterwards she walked around when I had her hide off. I did offer some more butterworms and she still doesn't want to eat. I'll give them a good calcium dusting and put them back in her dish for tonight. She has to be low on cal cause these eggs are huge! I am still shocked I couldn't believe my eyes! Really cool.
I've attached a picture of her and her egg. When i took the picture i thought it was only 1, but she is laying over another one.
Jeff
