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Hey, this is Trip again just wondering if anyone has any advice on something that may be a behavioral problem. I like to have my geckos in a natural setting with sand(store bought) and rocks(firmly grounded) as the setup. I have never had any problems that are the most common in this area such as sand impaction, rock falling, etc. But my prize female shctb female keeps laying her cluthes in the sand, and by the next day they are dried out. The other two females in her cage lay them in the laying box filled with vermiculite. But she seems to prefer drying them out in the sand ( that's the way I have found them twice). I upkeep every gecko cage nightly, so she has layed them late at night, and byu early morning they are kaput. I shtere anything I can do to encourage her to lay in the proper place?
 
Hey this is what I did for my lazy female. She would lay where she normaly poops and right next to the humid box, ON THE OUTSIDE OF IT!

So I put her in a cage with paper towel that I mist when I start to see her looking around for a laying place. She has layed 6 great eggs on the paper towels now even though I still give her a himud lay box. Then I just cut the little bit of paper that is stuck to the egg off.

I understand how you like the real looking setups but you should try to put her on paper towels for now if she keeps this up.
 
Normally when a female lays eggs outside the laying container the eggs are infertile. I have had some however that were laid outside and were fertile. I was using vermiculite at the time. Another thing it might be is that the female doesn’t like the vermiculite. I use coconut fiber now and I’ve been using it for two years and haven’t had any eggs laid outside of it. Sometime the females can picky.
 
I switchted to the coconut fiber a couple of months ago when Cody mentioned it and have had much better luck with eggs being laid in the proper place. I had one female that laid 2 clutches on the lid to the lay box with vermiculite.

Another thing you can do is when she is about ready to lay, put her in a showbox size container with the entire bottom of coconut fiber then she has no choice but to lay them in the moist fiber.
 
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