Sav Eating Her Own Eggs?

[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.

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Gatorhunter1231

Im curious on what Dave's opinion was.

Here you go.........

Originally Posted by crocdoc

It's not common, but I have seen a female monitor eat some of her own eggs because, apparently, she instinctively 'knew' the eggs were not viable (I say this because the monitor in question, a perentie, had laid normal clutches previously). By all means, search that enclosure for more eggs and if you find any that look viable, incubate them regardless, as there have been instances of parthenogenesis observed in a few monitor species so far. My guess, though, by the thinness of the shell as seen in your video that the eggs were only partially shelled slugs.

Originally Posted by crocdoc

It doesn't sound to me like they've been nested at all, but laid on the surface somewhere and then eaten. Once females nest them properly they bury them and don't dig them up again.

That doesn't mean you haven't provided proper nesting as there may be other things at play. Females don't always follow normal nesting behaviour with infertile eggs, poorly shelled eggs, although it is always healthier if they do. Was she digging a lot around the enclosure prior to laying these slugs?