chris and i talked today, i'm skeptical that a female would try to manually expel her eggs by squeezing under or between things in a sort of serpentine Heimlich maneuver.



My guess was that she's searching for a suitable laying site. I asked chris whether the laybox was on a heat pad, or too small, or otherwise unacceptable, but he's using just about the same setup my females readily accept. By the time we talked, though, she was back in the box and had burrowed to the bottom of the laybox, behavior that often shortly precedes egglaying. I suggested he throw a towel over the laybox just to create a greater sense of privacy in it (in my housing, layboxes are in the backs of trays in rack systems, so it's dark in the back; chris' was in a large aquarium so glass all around, no doubt more light entering the (clear plastic) tupperware container than in my circumstances. He's said he'll update us on the results.



terry

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