Hi Tom,
Thanks again for such a thoughtful reply. If I had to guess, it was probably 2 weeks ago when she shed. She laid the one egg last Tuesday evening & nothing since then.

Even without the camera, I can pretty much tell you exactly where the lumps are within her body. Now, I know it's roughly the lower half or lower 3rd of their body where the eggs are. With her, I can definitely see 5 lumps which are pretty evenly spaced. One is about a half inch to an inch up from her vent. It's been there since she laid the egg on Tuesday. When I checked on her today, I did gently feel that area and it's not hard.

Like I mentioned before, she is not at all agitated or restless. She seems pretty content. I do have quite a bit of experience with snakes (I've been keeping snakes for 15 yrs), so I am hoping that my description of her behavior is accurate. My point in mentioning her behavior is that she does not seem to be in dire straits. I am hoping this is just a case of not exactly being ready to lay her eggs.

I have no qualms about taking her to the vet, but I've yet to find a good herp vet around here, so I don't want to take her unless it's truly necessary. In all honesty, I'd be afraid that the vets I've been to would be too quick to do something drastic.

I just went to peek in on her (looking into the enclosure but not opening the lid) - she's curled up in the nesting box I provided her.

I'll try to find some better substrate for the nesting box. I didn't have a lot of time the other night to run all over town searching for stuff. All I could find was perlite & I had decided to use that for an incubator. Before that, I had made her a makeshift box lined with soft towels covered by damp paper towels. She was happily sitting in that when I had it in there too. I'll also cover her enclosure with towels to keep it dark.

Thanks again for your advice. I really do appreciate it.

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