Are you having her lay in her cage or in an egg laying container? Is she digging into a pot of sand, the substrate, or into a potted plant? I tried a few pots of sand/soil in their cages and it seems like I had better luck by taking them out since you could give them more privacy. If you've got a deep substrate in her normal cage, it would be ok and she would probably go for it, but they can't be disturbed while digging. Try covering as much of the cage as you can or just don't use the room for a while. Usually, the only reason my females ever stop digging is if they see me look in at them, then sometimes they just keep going but alot of the time they stop and start over later that day or the next day. It doesn't seem like they dig any "test holes" or at least not that I'm aware of. I use Supersoil, just a basic clean potting soil. I tried sand also and had better luck with soil. I get it nice and moist all the way through at first then about once a day I get the top wet agian but misting it for quite a while. My females don't seem to ever take more than a day to do the whole process and once they start digging I'd say in maybe 8 hours max they are done. I put her in at night, she begins digging after I leave for work the next morning and when I get home at around 3 the female is usually completely done. If she's been digging though, I'd just do what you're doing, but maybe try to giver her more privacy and she shouldn't stop digging. Just make sure her conditions are right (soil moisture and heat). Any more questions let me know.
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Tyler Stewart

Las Vegas NV

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