How many days does your female Leopard Gecko start digging before laying eggs?

[tb144050]

I would like to collect some data. I know that "no 2 geckos are alike", but with statistical data, there will be a statistical average and upper/lower outliers (extreme values).

Please, as your gravid Leo's are laying their way through the season, take note of: date when first dug, & date the clutch was laid.

You CAN select more than 1 answer, as needed, and repeat the poll if you have more than 1 female that meets that answer.


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for example: if you have a female that dug 2 days in advance, a female that dug 6 days in advance, and another female that dug 2 days in advance.

You would answer "2" and answer "6" during your first poll response. Then repeat the poll and answer with your other "2".
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Thanks in advance.

--TB


(also, feel free to post if this is: first-year breeder, first clutch of the mating, or first-year&first-clutch. This qualitative data will also be useful in explaining patterns in the answers.)

 

[Gary Orner]

I have females that dig all the time. I have males that do too. But on average only the day of for me

 

[tb144050]

Ruby: first clutch, first-time breeder
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Digging 10days prior to Laying.
first dig: March 16
Layed eggs: March 26
# of eggs: 2

 

[tb144050]

You CAN ... repeat the poll if you have more than 1 female that meets that answer.

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for example: if you have a female that dug 2 days in advance, a female that dug 6 days in advance, and another female that dug 2 days in advance.

You would answer "2" and answer "6" during your first poll response. Then repeat the poll and answer with your other "2".
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Correction: Apparently you are not allowed to repeat the poll. Just be sure to select all answers that apply, and I apologize that you can't repeat the poll for your other females that have a repeated answer.

 

[stager]

I have one that digs all the time but most around a day before laying.

 

[sheepherder]

digging hasn't been much of an indicator for me. They all dig whenever they feel like it, gravid or not. My male digs as well. i'm constantly cleaning up moss and putting it bk in their hides.lol

 

[tb144050]

Rosie layed her first eggs last night. She did NOT seem to have dug AT ALL...no dirt ever thrown on the sides, and eggs are NOT in a hole. Both candled the SAME yellow-greenish with no visible veins ..but first clutches are probably infertile..


Egg#B1 weighed 3.7g.
Egg#B2 weighed 4.3g.
(Egg #'s are assigned based on the "hunch" of which one was layed first. #B1 is the egg on the RIGHT in the photo below. #B2 is on the LEFT and is more directly under her...so I assume it was layed 2nd.)

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[Samantha12]

Incubate till there's no debate! They might surprise you.

Also, your gecko is gorgeous!!!

 

[Kjenkins]

Mine so far it's been 1-2 days before laying they will start digging. Than I had a female today that just started diggin today and layed today. I guess she is just a lazy gecko. Lol I have noticed a pattern for mine tho they lay about 10-12 days after I notice there gravid. Also they will stay on there heat pad all day for about 3-4 days before they lay. The day before and the day of laying they will lay just out side the hide with the heat pad under it. That's how I know to start watching for eggs.

 

[tb144050]

I have also noticed that each female has a pattern and tends to stick to that pattern.

Rosie, pictured and mentioned above, still does not dig at all. I found her 3rd clutch again laid on top of the ecoearth in her laybox.

Ruby still digs about a week before laying, then likes to sleep occasionally on the piled-high soil (with no soil left on the other half of the laybox).

My Rap-het-Blizzard hasn't laid her first clutch yet, but she dug for days very excitedly, slinging soil even on the lid of the laybox, about a week ago....still hasn't laid yet (this is very similar to Ruby's first clutch behavior.