The female consuming her own eggs is not normal. Its a product of poor nesting, a disruption of normal behavior.

Its a clear sign that something is wrong. Its up to you to figure out what that may be.

The nesting event has three basic parts,1. finding/making the nest,2, deposition of eggs, then 3, leaving/closing the nest. The inability to complete that often causes abberant behavior.

When depositing the eggs, they coil in a basic circle, moving around in that circle when depositing the eggs in the middle of the coils. This leaves a air space all around the eggs. That is normal.

In the picture I provided, you can clearly see that.

The picture is a nesting thats deep, secure and normal. That is, the female dug down, made the chamber, deposited the eggs, then came up and covered all holes.

Nesting behavior is one of the KEY behaviors that allows these wonderful animals to exsist.



I hope before some of you get all silly, you would just look at the picture, then compare that picture to the pictures you see of eggs scattered in a spahgnum moss box. There is clearly a difference.
Also, I understand that its common for many your animals to nest successfully. please understand, this example is for the times nesting fails. Which is what I am concerned with. Or for keepers who just want to see something interesting.

Please consider, this is an option, its not forcing you to do anything. So if whatever your doing is working, wonderful, keep it up. Cheers

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