Eggs found in hot hide dead!???

[tondu]

Hey today I found two eggs in my leopard geckos hot hide. I'm pretty sure they are dead. They are hard and smushed.
I have four geckos 1 male 3 females. All a year old. 2 of the females looked prego so I put vermiculite in the cool hide. Also made sure the moist hide was moist. They do not have loose substrate, have plenty of water, eat well (mealworms, waxworms, superworms, crickets), have calcium, plenty of room for all of them and enough hides for them all to fit. Also been checking hides everyday for eggs. :help:
Can you please tell me why she did this, what I did wrong, and what I need to do to make sure we don't have anymore dead babys!?
Thanks so much!

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Even when we make a nice place for the girls to deposit eggs, they lay where they want. When mine are due to lay, I separate any that might be together to minimize potential egg damage and to also know for sure who the eggs are from.

 

[tondu]

Ok Thanks for your quick response! So should I isolate a female in a different tank that I know is gravid?

 

[Pinky81]

+1 Laney I would seperate all the females from eachother and the male. like Laney said you won't know who's eggs are who's, and it help decrease the chance that one female lays and another doesn't dig up the other eggs.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Yes, I think so, because in a group of 4 geckos, a female may become more vunerable to stress during her gravid time. Alone, she can be at peace and find a nice comfy place to leave her eggs. It gives you an opportunity to monitor her more closely as well.

 

[tondu]

I will deff separate them, thank you guys so much! Is there anything else I can do to make sure she doesn't lay in a hot hide again?