Thanks for the input. The females are both about 3 feet long. There is a fair of "stuff" in the cage that it shouldn't feel like a big open void, lots of hidey holes. I have a hard time accepting the "too big cage" diagnosis; the wild is a lot bigger. The cages are made now but I will look into adding more hides.

The cool end is cooler in the winter, but we're in a heat wave and I'm battling the temps right now. I turned off the lights (those fluorescent lights produce a surprising amount of heat!) and have set the heat tape to turn off at the hottest times of the day, hopefully that helps.

The first female did not eat for a couple months before she passed the stillborns; the second female seemed hungry so I continued to feed her, but giving her small food items.

Anyway, I'm not going to repeat any breeding attempts until 2011, so I'm going to spend the next couple years taking advice and doing any more research I can... and hope for better results in 2011!

I spoke to someone else who theorized that, being "recently" WC females (at least 2 years for them both), they may still not be properly cycled, or if she "held" a just-after-season mating, either she or the male may not have been producing very many viable sex cells, and she aborted the slugs even though there were a few fertile ova.

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