Okay... you said they are not panther eggs but VEILED eggs...

You said..."they are being kept at 79 degrees and have been for alittle more then a month"...the temperature is good and the shrivelling and moldy eggs may be the ones that are not fertile...especially since you said..."nothing has changed in the shriviling of the eggs".Did you notice any difference in size or color of the ones that are shrivelling and molding compared to the ones that are still looking good? Infertile eggs will be less white and smaller from the get-go...and won't (of course) recover/bounce back if you add water.



You said..."she did lay those eggbound eggs and went back to health, then she bred with a male and laied these eggs"...then I wouldn't say that she was really eggbound. First clutches and infertile eggs aren't always laid on a "schedule". First clutches after the first mating in veileds often contain infertile eggs depending when she was mated in her cycle after she laid the infertile eggs.



In my previous post, I said that if you add too much water the eggs will likely "explode"....this is true of panther eggs, but veiled eggs are more forgiving....but there still must be a limit.



You said...I have a female panther right now that is on her 4th week of being gravid and i was just wondering how much longer i have....30 to 45 days is the norm for them to take after the mating. You're only at about 28 days. Has she been roaming the cage at all? Do you have a place in the cage for her to dig to show you that she is ready to lay the eggs? Two of the main causes for eggbinding are failure to provide a suitable place for the female to lay her eggs and allowing her to see you watching her when she digs. Husbandry issues are another big one. Physical issues (reproductive system "deformities", fused eggs, eggs that are too large to lay, etc.) can also cause it, but they aren't as common as the three reasons I already mentioned.



Hope this helps! If you have any more questions, just ask.

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• Panther eggs sinking. - chameleonowner, Sun Sep 17 20:45:11 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - squillaci7, Mon Sep 18 04:34:14 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - kinyonga, Mon Sep 18 13:46:25 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - chameleonowner, Mon Sep 18 18:41:17 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - kinyonga, Mon Sep 18 21:30:50 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - chameleonowner, Tue Sep 19 15:41:10 2006
• RE: Panther eggs sinking. - squillaci7, Tue Sep 19 20:01:43 2006
• RE: VEILED eggs sinking. - kinyonga, Wed Sep 20 09:58:51 2006