Thank you all! Not really worried. Both are still agile, basking, moving, and alert. Today I noticed another color change on the larger female. Her background color has always been brown with the recent bloom of pink splotches and cheeks. Now the background, or webbing is green! She has never been green!

Also, the smaller female, fat but didn't show lumps yet, today you can really see the lumps clearly! I am guessing she is about 2 weeks behind her larger cagemate.

I have also observed, and this is consistant with my other species, that the gravid females seem to dominate the lower parts of the viv now that nesting time is near. The other cagemates, male and non-gravid females, stay towards the non-nesting areas for the most part. When they do approach the ground they seem to stay away from the gravid females.

At night however, all three females have been hanging on the net together which is unusual as the non-gravid female is the submissive and shy one who usually hides most of the time. It seems so odd to see her hanging with the others! Dad however stays out of the way!

I did give them a nice rain this morning and the larger female ran for the rock and rolled a bit and drank quite a bit. She really seemed to be enjoying it. I know that with my other Acanthosaura this has sometimes been enough to trigger laying if they were close. If not, no harm regardless!

I hope to be showing photos of nice armata eggs by the end of the week!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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