Your gecko is looking for a suitable site to lay her eggs in. I have had many eggs laid near or even in the water dish. The females seem to like the moisture level there. Yours sounds like she is choosing that area near the water dish too.



There are many ways that people incubate the eggs and have success at it....this is what I have done and I have had success with it for many years now.



I put the eggs in a delicup (the one that is about 3" high) that is half filled with moist vermiculite. (The vermiculite is only moist enough that when you take some and squeeze it in your fist, only a drop or two of water comes out.) I put a couple of very small holes in the lid and place it back on the deli cup.



For incubating...I have a people's heating pad with a wooden frame of 2"x2" slats that it fits into the middle of. I put screen over the frame to rest the delicups on and set the heating pad on low. This should bring the temperature inside the delicup to about 80F. (The temperature needs to be about that temperature, but can go three or four degrees higher or a couple of degrees lower and still be okay. The height of the pad/frame can be adjusted until you get within that temperature range. Its a good idea to set the delicup up and check it before you need to put her eggs in it so that you have everything ready when the eggs are laid.)



BTW...I put this whole setup somewhere where there is no light....after all, they would be in the dark in the hole in the ground.



The temperature that you incubate the eggs at will determine the sex of the geckos.



She may lay more eggs in a month or so...so be prepared!

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