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So I have been breeding hissers successfully for quite awhile now, but I have never seen any of my females give birth, last night one of my females whom I believed to be gravid, seemed to be going into labor, her back end opened slowly, and I expected to see babies emerge instaed a cylinder shaped appendage came out
and after watching for another 20 min's I gave up, today I didnt see any babies although for a substrate I use shredded paper,they could be hiding,(they are not pets but feeders for my monitors) what did I witness and should there be babies anywhere?

If it looked like a small kidney bean, it's an egg case the babies will be in there. If it looks like a brown crushed soda can, it's a poo, cut back on the carbs...lol! If you've been breeding them for a while you might have noticed the cases after they opened. There is a good chance that the adults ate the cases before you saw them also. The best way to keep track of the babies is to take out the subtrate, you realy don't need it. Stack some cardboard egg containers up in the cage and they will use that to " seed " the cases in. You will be able to see the nymphs ( small and white) on the egg containers.

What kind of monitors eat the raoches? I have a Savannah and I want to start breeding hissers to feed him.