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Hi,

I found this kinda unusual object in my terrarium yesterday (pics below). It looks a bit like an egg, although it has no shell, is completely yellow on the outside and has only a very small white coating (although I must say i do not know what the inside off a lizard egg looks like). It's about 1 cm long and I found only one of it. It also has the same substance as dried-up egg yolk : hard, but still has some flexibility when you squeeze it.

I have 1.0.0 Agama Agama and 1.1.0. Collard Lizards (4 months old) in the same terrarium. Could it be that she... Or is Easter coming early and playing tricks on me?

And if it's an egg, should I worry about it having no shell? Are my Lizards suffering from calcium deficit? (Don't know if it's related, but I've noticed some white, chalk-like residu around their nostrils which comes off easily when brushing it gently with a finger)

Thanks for any feedback on this...

Gilles

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0.0.1 Red Headed Agama (Agama Agama)

Something else just occurred to me, which might be related :
a couple of weeks ago, she started digging herself in under the waterbowl and stay there during most part of the day. And then recently she stopped doing that and went back to her old hiding place when willing to hide or sleep...

Gilles
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1.0.0 Red Headed Agama Agama (George, big mean mofo)
1.1.0 Collared Lizards (Titus and Octavia, cutest ever)

Hi that is a collared egg that was sitting on top of the substrate, and dried a bit/ sorta shivels and you can see the yolk.

Most of the time when any of mine have just layed them on top of substrate during the night /what have you they appear to look this way. But sometimes if they do lack calcium, the shell will not form as well, as in harden. Yours looks pretty much the way they look after sitting and drying.

The white your seeign around the nostrils is also normal, most lizards expell excess salt through their nostrils /either sneeze it out and you will see white spots all over the glass or it hardens on the nostrils and appears crusty. It usually disappears in a couple days or you can use a q-tip with warm water and gently squab off.

:0)
Suncharmers kids

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PHEve / Eve

Hi,

I'm very surprised, because she's only 5 months old...
Should I worry then about suddenly having a nest of young collareds, cause I wouldn't really have the infrastructure to raise them? I was told that they do not breed that easily and that you have to stimulate that a.o. by hibernation.

Gilles
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1.0.0 Red Headed Agama Agama (George, big mean mofo)
1.1.0 Collared Lizards (Titus and Octavia, cutest ever)

is a great name for the white crusty nose stuff.

Did you look under the water bowl and around her digging area for more eggs? She should have tried to bury them, there could be more. If the sand is moist they possibly could still be good.
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Valerie Rae

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

Snalt... Love it...

Yep, I've looked and haven't found any others, even where she had been digging. And there's no area with moist sand in my terrarium, since I hadn't planned on breeding...

To be reconsidered it seems...

Gilles
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1.0.0 Red Headed Agama Agama (George, big mean mofo)
1.1.0 Collared Lizards (Bicinctores) (Titus and Octavia, cutest ever)

sometimes more frequently than you would like them to! Even if you have no male there can be infertile eggs. Brumation can be helpful towards successful breeding, but they can certainly reproduce without a brumation period. A nesting ground is important as the female could become egg-bound while searching for a good place to lay her eggs whether they are fertile or not.

If you have a chance at fertile eggs, and can swing the extras that you will need, it sure is fun to watch the little ones hatch and grow up! And healthy captive-bred little ones seem to always be in demand.
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Valerie Rae

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

My girlfriend is gonna kill me, I'm gonna love it !

Thanks,

Gilles
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1.0.0 Red Headed Agama Agama (George, big mean mofo)
1.1.0 Collared Lizards (Bicinctores) (Titus and Octavia, cutest ever)

Oh believe me, she will grow to love the lil kids, hehehehe, so very cute .
Suncharmers :0)

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PHEve / Eve