2 eggs, 1 female, no male?

[misterslim]

I was cleaning the coconut husk from my lone 2.5yr old female (no male in enclosure, ever) and I found two eggs. They look 100% fertile? How is this possible? I turned the soil so I don't know if the eggs are right side up or not but man, this is weird?
1 female, 1 33 gallon enclosure, two fertile eggs

Thanks
Dave

[tHeGiNo]

Some species of reptiles are capable of retaining sperm, where others lay eggs whether or not they have been in contact with a male. Obviously, in that case they would not be fertile.

[little_dragon_]

Under a light can you see red circling?

[misterslim]

I will have to check when I get home, thanks for the responses. If I don't see the red, I will assume they are infertile? To be continued........

[tHeGiNo]

Yep, you should be able to see a bunch of small blood vessels. Good luck!

[labomb2]

does anyone have a good closeup pic of fertile eggs?

[DragnDrop]

If she's never been with a male, or not within the last 6 months or so, the eggs will be infertile. Generally speaking, Rhac females won't lay eggs unless they've mated. There's no use wasting precious resources on infertile eggs which will go to waste, so they have the built-in safe guard of having to mate first. Sometimes young females will produce an infertile clutch when reaching maturity, like a test drive to make sure all systems are functioning properly. They don't as a rule lay infertile eggs regularly like leopard geckos would. However, an unmated female can and will lay the odd infertile clutch once in a while, sometimes one a year, sometimes every few years.
My guess is the eggs are infertile, but keep them anyways until they go bad, just in case she mated unknown to you if you have a male within reach.

[misterslim]

THanks for the information. There is a young male in a seperate cage and room. I haven't had them together. He is 8 months, I believe to young to breed.

[hotz]

Just keep the eggs. Even though is is 99.999% that they are infertile you never know. There is at least one species of lizard that is entirely parthenogenetic (no males) and I believe there are other species of life that can rarely produce young when males are not around.