Congrats and I wish you luck incubating them.



What your seeing is not a good sign. Normally they lay eggs, inside a hollow created by the female. They lay all the eggs, then cover them up and hide the entrance, then protect the area as you have seen.



When they lay them other then that, its because they cannot find a proper nesting place. what they normally do is wait and search until the eggs start to perish inside them then they dump them in the next best area, or around the cage or in the water bowl.



This eggs normally do not hatch, but please keep incubating them as they can hatch. It depends on how long they were held past the time they should have been laid.



What you observed is common with varanids, as nesting is so very critical with all varanids.



Why I mention this at all is, unless you improve your nesting, you will lose that beautiful female. Please, that is history. They can only dump eggs a few times before it takes its toll on them.



Simply put, thats why there are so many males in the classifieds. The females die from reproductive failure, and the males are excessed. Again, this is common across the board with varanid species.



Monitors are easy, particularly with captive hatched, but, nesting is the real hurdle. Its where all your effort will either reward you or cause you grief.

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