Getting Lumpy

Hey Brad,

As you know from reading so many panic-crazed posts in the past, this can go on for several days. It's so hard because you're thinking, "come on girl, you can do it." You know how exhausting and stressful it is for her and you just want them to get it done so you can pamper her with food and water and get her feeling 100% again...

I always feel so bad for my gravid females because they look so uncomfortable and tired...

Let's go Agnes!!!!
 
Also,

I recommend a small paint brush for excavating the eggs. You can dig down with your hands a first, then when you get close use the paint brush to gently remove the substrate from around the eggs... archeologist style!


This is also how i expose my incubating eggs to check on them.
 
And she continued to eat well here!
Once I realized she was gravid, she got daily feedings of between 4 and 8 feeders per day. She stopped eating on the 22nd of Feb.
crickets, dubia, silkworms and superworms have been her diet here, with pretty heavy calcium dusting.

-Brad

-she is still digging like a champ. hasn't left this hole at all.
I can't really see how deep it is without disturbing her so ???
but there is a big pile of dirt (I have a secret little slit I can peek through w/out her seeing me ... especially now that she is deep in this hole.
She doesn't seem to pay much attention to me right now anyway.
She has become a focused woman on a mission!:)
 
I snuck a peek (she didn't see me).
her tunnel goes down along the side of the bucket ... she's gotten really far!
Only her tail was showing.
I'm not going to look again ... I'm so proud of her!:)

-Brad
 
nice

nice Brad, she will completely disappear before she's finished digging, you'd mistake them for moles if you didn't know any better. Digging out the eggs is one of the most exciting things i've done involving herps, it's like x-mas seeing how many eggs they've laid!
 
Okay ... she is much skinnier and filling the hole now!
Here's the time line:

8:56 a.m. started digging
2:49 p.m. started laying
4:33 p.m. started to fill in the hole.

-Brad
 
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