Tom, gorgeous looking trees there. I always liked the blues but never owned any. That girl does look a bit thick and hope you get some eggs soon. My only experiance with the trees are Kordensis and GTM,I had a female that looked like a blue spruce tree, when she was gravid in the latter stages her tail would get real thin but she would only lay 1-2 eggs? I only had them for about 2 years and they were neat species to work with. One thing that amazed me is how aggressive the female would get at the ordinarily dominant male after she laid eggs. The one day I heard alot of action in the cage and she had the male cornered under some cork bark. I soon found out it is a good idea to pull the male [in my situation with smaller cages] for about 2 weeks. That female was meaner then a scorned woman at that poor male.

I have seen some mild post egg laying protection from V. Pilbarensis but nothing in comparison to that Kordensis Gal. She was really outright mean. Have you ever seen this in your experiances with some of the trees? I heard the black trees were even worse but that is second hand info. Im sure with larger caging the male may find a safehaven in your cages, mine were just to small. All of your monitors really look very healthy, nice color and robust but not overweight. Thanks for posting the pics.

Bob

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