I use clean dry top soil for the substrate, except for one large corner of the tub, where I put about three inches of moist packed vermiculite covered by bark for the mamas to lay their eggs in.

Some photos this afternoon:

Very gravid mama!

The male bolted before I could take the shot.

Very gravid mama next to mama who laid eggs yesterday. Her eggs are improving in appearance.

Male with one of his ladies.

Each tub has two or three females with one male. From now on it is just a matter of watching for deflated ladies and carefully excavating the resulting eggs with a table spoon to go in the incubator. When they have laid their eggs in the vermiculite it has a characteristic disturbed look, another good tell. I do stuff with them mainly in the morning when it is cool, and they are slower moving.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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