A male and female housed together full time will breed. You may not observe them breeding but they will have. Unless they are too young for breeding or the temps are too cool to allow for breeding. (around 70-75 F is considered their cooling temperatures..so they won't breed much if at all in these temps..raise up to 75-80F and they will breed and lay eggs).



It is possible to house males and females together but definitely cool them each year for a couple months, to give the female time to recuperate from egg laying, else she can be bred to death, usually because of calcium crash (calcium become so low suddenly (usually after shelling eggs) her health crashes fast.



Best to house male and female together only to breed...usually a week or two together will be more than enough time to ensure a full seasons worth of fertilized eggs.



What sort of substrate do you use? If you use soil, bed a beast, coconut husk, or other particulate substrates, most likely she has been laying eggs in it...and they have gone unnoticed, unless you regularly clean out all the subsrate, instead of spot cleaning.
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