Thanks for posting what Crocdoc said!
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Originally Posted by Gatorhunter1231
Egg #2 doesn't look like it has been digested to me. I feed my infertile snake eggs and a few tristis eggs to my ackie and nothing egg like comes out the other end after it goes through digestion. More importantly-where is your female laying these eggs? Is she making an effort to nest them correctly (tunneling under soil to lay). It would seem to me that she is stressing, laying the eggs on the surface, and then consuming them later.
Interested for sure but with details of the enclosure then its all theories. Im curious on what Dave's opinion was.
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So if you feel like Egg #2 doesn't look totally digested, do you think it was laid in her water bowl?
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Originally Posted by varanus_mad
Do you know how they were nested?
That's what id be concerned about getting nesting right is important with varanids.
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I only know that she's been digging a lot lately and spending more time in and around her burrow, behavior I have never really seen before.
I know it's so important! I did my best to provide what I thought was a proper nesting site. Now I need to figure out what's wrong with it.
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Originally Posted by Gatorhunter1231
Lol basically the same as I said.
What is surface temp of basking spot and humidity levels?
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She has two basking spots that cover her SVL. One is 140*F and the other is 150*F. This wasn't intentional, it just worked out this way. Her ambient humidity is 70 to 80% throughout most of the enclosure and 60% near the basking spot. She has 12 inches of a soil/sand substrate throughout. Her enclosure is 5 feet long, 2 feet deep, and 3 feet tall.
Last I checked, the substrate near the basking spot is 85*F and it's 80*F throughout the rest of the enclosure.
I've been meaning to verify the soil temps but she's been in her burrow so I haven't been able to.
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