First, thank you guys for the replies and nice comments.



So, we got another clutch the very next night. This time I was able to observe the female and what she did before and after laying. It might be the first time this nesting behavior has been observed in nesting hogs in captivity. I have never seen anything written or reported about it before.



The female dug out a spot for the eggs and laid them. She then pushed the eggs around until they were sitting the way she wanted them, or thats what it looked like anyway. Once she was "happy" with the location of the eggs, she then pushed the nesting substrate around the eggs with her rostral scale to pack the eggs in very tightly. * were laid, 8 are good.



Frank, the first female laid her eggs 10 days after prelay and the second female laid her eggs about 12 HOURS after prelay. Never had one drop that soon after prelay before.



Here are the eggs as we dug them up.







And here they are in the SIM

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• First female to lay and nesting.... - Gregg_M_Madden, Wed Apr 24 01:03:18 2013
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