If the female can still smell the eggs even after removed they may continue to maternally incubate even with no eggs present, I recommend you remove the females and give the enclosure a real good cleaning to remove the possible residual smell of the removed eggs, If they have resumed feeding I wouldnt be too concerned, but it is a waste of the mothers bioloical resources to brood eggs that are not there.
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Thanks,



Frank Roberts

Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

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