Help! No egg!

[leopardboy193]

Hi, i have a male and a female leopard gecko. They bred about 3 weeks ago. She got real big and then small. I looked everywhere in her cage and never found any eggs. Why did she absorb the eggs? Please help i need to know why!

 

[Baoh]

Did you see the eggs through the skin of her belly?

 

[kooteepee]

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If you are pretty certain that when she's big she has eggs in her tummy and that they seem to disappear now. There is a possibility that she absored the eggs back as calcium ( egg shells) into her body, most often these are infertile eggs. Its not suprising to see infertile eggs at 1st cluctch, so keep going and dun give up . Cheers !

 

[leopardboy193]

Did you see the eggs through the skin of her belly?

No but i have seen gravid geckos and she looked just like them. I am sure she was gravid.

 

[leopardboy193]

Cmon on people. I need answers. Help me out!!!!!!!!

 

[leopardboy193]

HELP!

 

[rcobourn]

If she is anything like my pictus geckos, she may be better at hiding that you are at finding.

I would look at your calcium supplementation regimen. Most likely cause for egg absorption is lack of fertilization, followed by lack of minerals, as far as I know.

 

[Mel&Keith]

I think you got your answer. I'm sure she's reabsorbing them if you're sure she's gravid. We had a lot of them do it this year.