Do females watch there eggs?

[CoolGecko]

On the 18th of this month. I woke up and found 2 eggs with her in there . When i female lays her eggs does she stay with them. Or leave them on there own. Bc i have been seeing that when my females and done layying they are still in there on them or over top of them. And ever time i go to get them out. I think she is going to bite me (NOTE: She or any or my female have never bit me) I was just asking if she would bit me. This question just came to me. :main_yes:

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Female geckos do not have parental instincts per se, and leave their eggs where they bury them.

 

[CoolGecko]

didnt think so Cool thank You so she isnt going to bit me when i remove her eggs right?

 

[monkeygirl]

nope, she might be a bit cranky after having laid eggs as she may be a bit sore but she wont care about her eggs being taken. mine dont seem to care anyway

 

[trizzypballr]

I feel its best to get the eggs out of the lay box as soon as possible. To much or to little moisture is bad for an egg, and thats hard to control in a lay box. If you dont have an incubator to incubate them you can find a hovabator pretty cheap(somewhere around $50) to use.

 

[GoGo]

My only egg producing female(at the moment) every time having laid eggs stayed by them and attempted to rip the repti-carpet to shreds in order to bury them >>. And when removed she went crazy running around looking for her eggs.

 

[trizzypballr]

You should make sure to have an egg box for her to lay the eggs in. a tubaware container will work fine. I use containers that look like they would fit like a sandwitch cut in half. The box is probley the length of a gecko, and just wide enough for her to turn around in, you dont need anything huge. I like to use a bedding called echo-earth. You can pick it up at your local pet store or many places online. It comes in a brick, you soak it in water and it expands. I keep that moiste, and probley 95% of the time my females have laid in the box. You just pull the box out of the cage then and its easy to get the eggs out. I found though that sometimes the parent will step on the egg and dent it. Thats why I get the eggs out as soon as possible. Remember a dented egg isnt a bad egg, the dents usually come out in the incubator

 

[GroovyGeckos.com]

I have witnessed females be somewhat protective of their eggs. They have also searched for them, once the eggs were moved out of their enclosure.

Some of them do not really seem to care, others look like they are ready to attack me.:main_yes:

 

[justin-branam]

I have witnessed females be somewhat protective of their eggs. They have also searched for them, once the eggs were moved out of their enclosure.

Some of them do not really seem to care, others look like they are ready to attack me.:main_yes:

my 3 egg laying females all stay on top of their eggs for at least a few hours each time. one lunged out at me and looked kinda grumpy when i went to take the top off of the laybox they all go back in and lay down where the eggs were after i get them out and put the top back on. the next day they act like it never happened thugh.

 

[trizzypballr]

LoL I think its funny that ive probley had at least 25 clutches laid so far this year, and I have actully yet to have seen a female that realy cared about her eggs, but it seems that everyone elses females are protective, maybe I just dont understand gecko language;-)

 

[okapi]

my 3 egg laying females all stay on top of their eggs for at least a few hours each time. one lunged out at me and looked kinda grumpy when i went to take the top off of the laybox they all go back in and lay down where the eggs were after i get them out and put the top back on. the next day they act like it never happened thugh.

This is how my VMS females act.
My others dont seem to care either way though

 

[okapi]

This morning I woke up to find two very freshly laid eggs on the bottem glass of the aquarium. One of my females (named CP) was laying right on top of them. She had pushed the paper towel out of the way and laid them on the bare tank bottem.... instead of in the humid hide. Luckily for me the eggs were so newly laid that they were not stuck to the tank so I picked them up and put them in the incubator. CP ran off as soon as I took the eggs, but for the next two hours she kept coming back to the spot and licking the spot where the eggs were laid then would scratch around the area with her front feet. I put the paper towel back over the spot and within a few mins she had it scruntched back up out of the way and kept walking around the area where the eggs were. I even tried picking her up and putting her in the humid hide and she came right back out to start "digging" around where the eggs were. She is one of the females that I got from VMS. All of the females that I got from them "gaurd" their eggs and seem disoriented when I put the eggs in the incubator.

 

[trizzypballr]

Thats interresting, ive had probley 4 or 5 clutches laid since this thread was started, and havent noticed much about the females, sometimes they will still be in the humid hide with the eggs, but they always burry them deep in the echo earth, so i just take em out of the hide and put them by their food bowl and pull the hide out, take the eggs out and put the hide back in

 

[GroovyGeckos.com]

but it seems that everyone elses females are protective, maybe I just dont understand gecko language;-)

Not every one, just a few. Here and there. Oh, you`ll know it when you hear a little "bark" or "squalk", and they lunge at you like you`re lunch. LOL

Sometimes they only wave their tail, or stand up to look big. I think it just part of a geckos "personality", some are just more bold than others.

 

[CoolGecko]

Thats funny also i just had on female lay today and one 2 nights ago total count so far good to bad is 5-5 not bad for my full season start...

 

[MichaelJ]

Agreed two of my female lay them and leave them. Two others guard them like hawks for awhile.

I had only one female a few years ago search for her eggs for days. I felt so bad.

My gargoyle on the other hand guards them constantly. Although she's laying infertile eggs because I haven't mated her and won't until next season. I have to remove everything from her cage and pick her up gently and then take the eggs. We try to incubate just for kicks but no luck yet. She looks around for a bit and then goes back and hangs from her plastic foliage.

 

[RO Geckos]

Geckos seem to be like most other animals, lots of different personalities. That is one of the things I enjoy the most.