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As many of you know my little girl was really scaring me with her size and lack of eating for so long. Today, at 3:50 PM, after days of fear and weeks of anticipation, I checked her hide after cleaning my snakes cage and found what i beleive to be a small infertile egg. I just wanted to thank everyone for their help and hoping for my little girl.

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The egg dented a huge amount when i went to mark it with a marker and felt like the half empty water bottle many of you describe. I don't know if the egg was big or small for a leo, but I thank the Lord that she got it out and will be doing fine. I saved the egg, but I doubt it will harden, but of course the egg is the least of my worries, and thank you all again for the support.

Tyler
 
Tyler- I am just really glad she is ok. I know how worried you were about her.
 
good news...

Whew! Tyler, she will probably lay the second one within a day or so, and it could be fertile if she's been exposed to a male. This is very common for first-timers, and now she will know where to go to lay her eggs from now on.
 
Glad she is OK but don't count the egg out yet, it takes a little time for them to harden after being laid to be able to write on them and the egg compared to the marker looks of correct size to me.

I just had 2 hatch this week from very weird eggs that never firmed up, they were always soft to the touch and the shell has a rubberly like wet leather feeling so you never know.

Glad to see she did lay and hope she is doing well, give the egg some time and I hope she lays the 2nd egg for you soon too!

I try not to take them out until both are laid, and if I catch them when they are laying I give it a half hour or so before I take them out, giving them time to firm up a tad.

Good luck with her and Im so glad you are seeing some progress with her!
 
Shew, glad she laid.. ;) What is the stuff you have in the hide.. and when you squeeze it does it drip water? If there is too much water then it could be bad, too much water can be absorbed by the egg and drown the embryo.
 
good point...

Good observation, Matt! I went back to look at the photo again, and the substrate does look very wet. If this is the case, it could indeed cause the eggs to become turgid, as well as contribute to the female waiting so long to lay the eggs. Tyler, the medium should be slightly moist, but not wet, just in case you didn't know.
 
I had 2 females lay in the water dish and even with all hopes and prayers they were totally collpased and severly molded in a short period of time, there were fertile, candled with nice veins when I took them from the dish but did not develop and became fuzz bumbs. Too wet can be horrible on eggs!
 
thank you all ofr your kind words. yes, the substrate is pretty dark but actually it doesn't drip when i squeeze it. the second egg i beleive disappeared. She may have absorbed it. I held her up after I found the first egg and she looked like she was ovulating but not carrying any more eggs. the pic does look very compact and wet but i think that is just from spraying it over and over... and over. since the mucus was there when i touched the egg, i figured it might be newly laid but i have no way of knowing, so i took it out. i will be very very suprised if i find another egg in there tonight!
 
Whew! What a relief! She had us all worried. She never does things the easy way, does she?
 
no, she seriously plays with my mind for feeding, laying, breeding, and handling too! even when i hold her she'll find something to do that throws me off gaurd.
 
she will probably lay the second one within a day or so
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, By Marcia

I try not to take them out until both are laid, and if I catch them when they are laying I give it a half hour or so before I take them out, giving them time to firm up a tad.
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Hmmm, does this mean if I find one egg i could leave it for a day or two before collecting it. I always assumed they should be picked up as soon as they were found. :shrug01:
 
just my opinion...

Usually, when the eggs are fertile, they are laid within minutes of each other... but it is my experience with first timers that lay infertile, limp, water-balloon eggs, they can lay them up to a day apart. Under normal circumstances I go ahead and incubate them right away, but I know that Ron Tremper only collects eggs from his lay boxes once a week.
 
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