Alright. If you see my other post, my blizzard male which is new hadn't eaten when it first arrived, and is now eating, a little. However, I am a little concerned still (when have I ever been NOT concerned!)

He seems VERY confused. I don't think he knows that he's a leopard gecko.

Aside from having terrible aim at the crickets (missing mos of the time), he's awake in the day, sleeping at night. Acting quite arboreal. While the temps in all leo cages are identical here, and everyone else is in the warm side hide, he spends his days in the cold side hide. Always.

He seems happy now and starting to eat. Very active and bright eyed.

I don't know if I should be concerned about this weird behaviour.

I also have a female that's been acting strange this two days. She's usually the biggest eater, but last two nights has eaten much less, and taken to digging in a corner.... YIKES! As I'm typing this.... all of a sudden I'm thinking could she be gravid????? She's a subadult not full grown and has never mated.

OH man. Do they get gravid without mating? And ok if so I need an egg box so I get a tupperware with sphagnum moss inside is ok? All the potting soil stuff available here are in Chinese I can't match the names to vermaculite perlite etc. I can get sphagnum moss easy.

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Alright I just put in a egg box with a tupperware filled half with peat and there is a hole cut in it that is sort of in each of two corners such that part of the top and side of the corner are cut out. I put her in front of it and she entered the hole and came out and is now circling the thing but not going in again. Not sure if I'm doing the right thing. Argh! I can sorta see a white thing in the stomach but its really small and I saw some pinkish "eggs" but then I notice all the other femaleshave it so it probably is some organs.

What am Idoing??? Going nuts! LOL!

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Alright its now overnight the egg box I made is not touched and she has been digging obviously at the same spot she had been before on the paper towel. I can't put the egg box there without rearranging the whole tank because it's a gap between the hide and the glass... Should I trust her to get to the egg box?

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1.0.0 Red Chain Snake - un-named
0.0.1 Twin spotted rat snake - un-named
1.0.0 Grey Chinchilla - Gee Gee

If you can see a pink spot on the bottom of her belly in the middle of it-it means that she is ovulating-forming follicles that will turn into eggs
Eggs will be visible as white blobs along each side of the bottom of their belly
This is a great link to some fantastic pics illustrating this from Felicia -a fellow Leo keeper/breeder

http://www.leopardgeckobreeder.com/ovulation/

Females will often lay infertile eggs outside the lay box but then they have also been known to lay fertile ones there too

Here is a great link for an explanation of what gravid and ovulating mean in Leopard Geckos

Gravid and ovulation definition help, please! <VBG> - GeckoForums.net


hope this helps


Sandy

Sandy, I see a pink spot (I think) but no white eggs. So, she may be ovulating and not "egging" , so, basically, what do I do? She has reduced eating and is digging in a corner where I can't fit a egg box. I have put an egg box elsewhere. See my other post. She does go in it, but continues to dig in that little corner gap, pulling the paper towel corner up.It says in your link to "cool" them. But I only see a tiny pink spot at the bottom, not like the pics you link to. So I don't want to cool them. And the place where your pics show "eggs" that are white, she has pink stuff. But then, I check my other females and they all have this pink stuff.

Should I remove the egg box or what? They said in your link that they ovulate and then if mated produce eggs, but even if not mated they can still produce eggs but rarely. HOw likely is it to produce eggs? She has not mated ever.

And why cool them? In nature, if they ovulate but do not mate, they still resorb the eggs right? They don't suddntly cool in nature. I don't want to cool her because it says that it adds to the not eating problem, and she has slowed her eating.

And she has NO white blobs, so why is she digging?

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0.0.1 Sulcata Tortoise - Mantow
0.0.1 Ball Python - Se se
0.1.0 Leucistic Texas Ratsnake - un-named (Suggestions welcome)
1.0.0 Blizzard Cornsnake het Anery A - Xiao Xiao
1.1.0 Normal Corn snake het Anery A het Amel 66% poss. het stripe - un-named
1.0.0 Red Chain Snake - un-named
0.0.1 Twin spotted rat snake - un-named
1.0.0 Grey Chinchilla - Gee Gee