You asked..."how to see if the female is going to lay eggs?"



For all my egglaying females, I provide a container in the cages that is big enough that she will fit into it when its empty with room to spare on all sides. I fill it about 8" deep with washed sand-box sand...this gives the female a place to dig when she's ready to lay the eggs. This way you can't miss the subtle clues that she is gravid (pregnant)...like pacing the floor of the cage, moving around the cage more than usual and if she doesn't take on her non-recptive colors, you won't have to worry about that either.



When a veiled female is receptive, she has bright blue spots on her body and yellow markings/splotches. When she is non-receptive or gravid, her background color changes to almost black in the presence of a male....but it won't always be dark when there is no male around. Some of them will darken even without a male there.



Some females that are gravid with infertile eggs will look larger in the back half of the body and others won't....depends on how many eggs they are carrying. Some will stop eating a couple of days before they are going to lay the eggs and some won't.



Gravid coloration...

http://adcham.com/images/images-species/Ch.calyptratus/CCalyptratusGravidF1.jpg

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