My female is pregnant??

[Repti]

I just realized my female is probably pregnant.
First when i manipulate her this morning i saw a white spots on her belly.
I also realized that she is starting to refuse food.
When i put her a humid hide as she was sheding she juste took all the sphagnum moss out and rearange it.

Are thoses signs?? Or am I crazy??

Where I bought her she was housed with 2 males and 2 other females. She is with me since 1 month.

Repti
Any tips would be great cause I'm freakin out right now!!!

[Alicewave]

Um.... eii sounds like she might be. Housed with 2 males? They haven't killed each other yet?

[Amiechann]

Sounds like she is going to lay soon. Mine alway quit eating a couple of days b4 hand, get really lethargic, and then start going crazy with the sphagnum moss (i.e.. kicking it out of the laying box, and all over her enclosure).. Just make sure to keep the laying box humid so when she lays eggs, they do not dry out.
Also, have something ready to incubate the eggs with, either a hovabator, or some type of home made incubator.

[striko_69]

hey i think you have probably got a pregnant one, definately if she had been kept with T W O males!! my males started fighting before i could even tell that they were males, and there werent even females in there with em!!! must have been a fairly large tank!!! anyways i bought a small (30cm x 25cm) fish tank, and converted it into an incubator, this got me four leopard geckos, no failed hatching at all!!! all i did was put polystyrene sheets around all sides, no glass lid or anything, a polystyrene lid (cut to size), a fish heater (of apropriate size!), 3 inches of water, and a metal tray. The heater heated the water, which created the large amount of humidity, and also heated the air (which you should measure with a VERY accurate thermometer (clinic type) to 28-32 degrees, open the top every day to air the incubator, and without turning the eggs from the position they were when laid, place them into vermiculite in a margarine tub (or appropriate sized container) so that half of the egg is buried, put the margarine lid, with a lot of holes in ( for fresh air), onto the container, and thats it. But i would recomend going out, and getting the leopard gecko manual by de vosjoli, and others

good luck, keep us posted

[Repti]

I'm gonna built an home made incubator tomorow and i need to know should I use vermiculite et perlite???
When will she lay the egg?? Morning, night???
I puted a laying box with peat moss in it is that ok??

Repti

[Bartman]

they would probably lay the eggs at night since they are nocturnal but than again i could be wrong...good luck with your eggs..im planning on breeding my leopards soon aswell.

[Repti]

Thx good luck with yours the problem is that i do not have plan on breeding mine this year!!!

[Clownfishie]

She will likely lay at night, although really, she could do it whenever she feels like it -- kinda like women having babies ;)

Peat moss is fine in the laying box, that's what I use in mine. If you didn't have plans to breed your leopards, you don't need to keep the eggs... you can always throw them out. Sounds bad I know, but if you don't have the space or money for babies, then it's an alternative.
If you do plan on incubating the eggs, best of luck with them! I've used both Perlite & Vermiculite as an incubating medium, and both seem to work just fine...

[Repti]

I do nut have plan it but i'm happy she got one egg because this meen her father was an tangerine albinos to so the baby will be an tangerine albinos. Anyway i'm gonna built my incubator today. Is this a good model??? http://www.geocities.com/geckoman93/incubatorf.html

[Clownfishie]

Did you mean that the father of the babies was also a tangerine albino? Even with 2 tangerine parents, you're not guaranteed to have tangerine babies... however if both parents were albino, then you will definitely have albino babies :) And if they were both tang albinos, then there's a fairly decent chance that you could end up with some tang albino babies...

[Repti]

Yes the father is a tangerine albinos she was housed with. They are both tangerine albinos so i'm guessing the babies will be tang albinos??

Repti

[striko_69]

hey that incubator is very similar, except, cook the vermiculite in the oven/microwave for a few minutes to kill all bacteria/molds

[Bartman]

Thats the exact same idea i used for an incubator and it worked successfully with my painted turtles. I am planning to breed leoaprds to and thats the same incubator im gonna use again. Make sure to show us pics when/if the eggs hatch. Good luck with them.

[Repti]

I puted the laying box 3 days ago and I do not have eggs. Now I am asking myself Is she really pregnant?? Is there any special signs?? I know she should stop eating a while before laying. Today she ate a pinkie and a silk worm. How many time does it takes from the moment they copulate to the moment she lay the eggs?? Could it be over a month??

Repti