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The mystery egg. What a story behind that.
Okay so I will start from the beginning...
In April of this year I had gone to Petco to pick up a few supplies (overpriced supplies but needed them). I see this Crested gecko, cute as a button, no tail, and housed with several others who were obviously larger and older. I felt sorry for her, so I figured she would make a great candidate for a natural planted viv, because I'd never breed her (due to her oddly shaped back, and the fact that I didn't know her history). So The manger sold her to me for $12 dollars.
On sept. 3rd. She laid two dud eggs. No big deal a lot of females will lay duds to get rid of excess calcium or as they are hitting sexual maturity. In Nov. she laid two more, not common but not unheard of for a female to lay two clutches of duds.
On Dec. 12th, she laid two eggs again. One dud, and one perfect, white oval shaped, and obviously very fertile egg. I am like What the HECK?????
Keep in mind, I have never put her with a male. She wasn't even in the same ROOM as my male. Not that it can happen by osmosis lol. So she must have been bred at the store and retained sperm. Then started laying the eggs, when she felt secure an comfortable in her new home with me. So this is where I am at now. A mystery egg, incubating so far for 23 days and still going strong. So no idea what dad looks like. Its pretty exciting. I hate waiting though. At the temps I have it should hatch around the end of Feb. Early March.
I was lucky though, they only reason I had even caught the egg in time. Was I had noticed that she was digging every time I saw her for 4 days. She was buried which was unusual for her. So every morning I weighed her, to see if she had lost any weight. One morning she dropped about 6 grams so I started searching and there they were.
The scary thing is she never reached breeding weight. She started back in Sept. laying eggs at 23 grams, then reached 27, laid again and went back down to 23 grams. Thats how I knew she laid the second time. I saw her and about had a stroke when I realized how skinny she looked. So I weighed her, and placed her in a holding tank. I thought she was sick. Then I cleaned out the tank and found the two dud eggs.
So now she is cooled off. I don't want her laying anymore eggs until she reaches a good weight. She is gaining weight steadily now and doesn't appear to have any more eggs brewing.
So thats the story behind the mystery egg.
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