Oh but you know this game well lady, your not a newbie anymore!

Your lizards are healthy, they have options and a committed keeper, what more can you ask?

Your lizard turned pink because the eggs are shelled, when embryo are developing they absorb most of the carotenoids, when they are matured these carotenoids are stored in the female’s body fat, this turning her flesh pink as in salmons.

So don’t wary not only is she getting ready to nest, but you will have nice color babies. This can be asserted by candling your eggs, they will candle orange not yellow as usual, the reason is that carotenoids changes the yolk coloration.

Remember when you hatched blue babies? That was a direct result of what you fed the feeders.

Anyway be patient nothing to worry about, I have never seen egg binding in well hydrated lizards, and from what I know yours are not dehydrated.

Renown herpetologist and friend the late Thomas Hoff understood something that no herpetologist understood before him. He new the importance of stress in regards to nesting, in nature nesting is never a stress free event, stress is induced by many things like, competition for site, weather condition, a multitude of predators from mammals to ants, this Thomas understood very well, he use to bag gravid reptiles and take them for a 20 minute ride in the bake of his pick up!
This usually was enough for them to produce the necessary hormones to provoke nesting, of course the artificial and less desirable option is oxitocin injection, but why gamble with dosage when reptiles can do this on there own in appropriate and safe dosage.

Sins Thomas explained this concept, Iv don this with a multitude of egg bond reptiles with 100% success. If you feel your female is restless let me know, till then no worry.

Rgds

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