Kent67
Retired Moderator
Late Friday morning I found the little female Furcifer major down near the bottom of her 4 foot cage, which is unusual. It had only been 20 days since the first of the three copulations that I witnessed so I figured she wouldn't be ready to lay for a few more days at least. I went ahead and put her laying container back into the cage and even dug out a little starter hole for her. Within just a couple minutes of putting the soil in, she went straight to it and started digging, ignoring my hole. This was about 11:30am. She dug for several hours, going to the bottom of the six inches of soil. Then she took a right turn and went another 7 inches or so, packing the soil up in the tunnel behind her. By 9pm I became worried about how long she had been completely sealed underground so I removed some of the soil from her burrow until I could poke a little air hole into the chamber she was in and then left her alone. A friend called and I went to meet her for a couple drinks at 10:45pm, at which time I could see Mrs Major was just starting to fill in her hole. When I returned home a couple hours later she had completely filled in her burrow as well as the extra hole I had constructed! Happy that she could finally eat normally again, she had a couple crickets and a couple wax worms and went to sleep just shy of 1am. Hopefully she'll get an earlier start next time!
These eggs will hopefully represent the first 3rd generation of Furcifer major to hatch in the U.S. and the second ever (by different animals) just behind Brandy's in Canada. She laid them Friday and I'm already frustrated with how long they're taking to hatch
These eggs will hopefully represent the first 3rd generation of Furcifer major to hatch in the U.S. and the second ever (by different animals) just behind Brandy's in Canada. She laid them Friday and I'm already frustrated with how long they're taking to hatch
