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basinboa
at Sun Jul 31 11:30:48 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by basinboa ]
Hi.. And welcome.
First I have to say Im probably the one with the least experience in this topic.
I also have prasinus, got eggs once (not without nesting problems), and Im probably getting eggs again in a month.
I seems like the cage is way too small. But as FR said, it's best to keep them in a small useful cage than a big useless one.
I have no idea how your cage is. You should post a picture here so people could give you some real help, because you may be doing something wrong that can be easily revealed by a picture (or not).
More important than that.
You're keeping them at the school you work. Ok, it's a stressful enviroment but they seem to be adapted to that.
But then you say you leave them there for the summer and show up "every few days to feed and mist".
One thing I learned in this one year I have been keeping prasinus: They are fast metabolism monitors are store very little fat. Thus, they do need A LOT of food to cycle and produce ovum (females).
They need food EVERY DAY, lots of it. Don't treat them like pythons. FOOD HEAT. Feedum and heatum, as FR always says. It's especially true for monitors.
Without a lot of food and heat, your female will never have enough fat to make vitelogenesis. So, she will be kept alive, maybe even in good shape, but will not enter the reproductive cycle mode.
As you probably know, breeding is luxury for animals. First they need to stay alive in the end of the day, and, IF THERE IS extra energy, their body may use it for the reproductive cycle.
So, and, by all that has been said by you, which is:
you have a pair, they do fine, the male tries to breed but the female is not letting him, you feed them every few days.
It seems your female is not having access to that extra energy needed to ovulate.
After you get past this easy part, then you can start to burn your brain about the hard part: nesting.
Just MY personal opinion, based on what YOU said.
Bruno (aka, Tree Boa)
Cheers.
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ONE OBSERVATION... - basinboa, Sun Jul 31 11:30:48 2011