Warm soak for gravid female?

[RocksMama77]

Hi all, I have a pregnant little girl and she looks to be very close to laying. She has had a bad shed and I need to deal with it. I usually soak her while I get the shed off. It does make her angry but usually I don't care. But with her having eggs I am terrified of busting them inside her just by holding her and I also don't want her to lay earlier than she should. Can I give her a warm soak or not?

Also just so you know she has always been a lazy shedder. She gets off what she can and then stops trying completely. Right now she has it on her toes as well as her entire tail.

 

[NycGecko]

its ok that you give her a warm soak even if she is gravid. it actually eases her to lay her eggs. what i usually do is soak my females in for 15 minutes and then throw her back in with a heatlamp in one certain spot and just leave it on the whole time and she will lay !!! goodluck !

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

You can do warm soaks still. The eggs inside her are a lot stronger than you would imagine, so don't worry about damaging them by simply holding her. I have found that on average a gecko will lay eggs 6 days after shedding. So maybe that will help you guesstimate her lay date.

 

[RocksMama77]

Thanks so much for your replies.