Yesterday I was pleased to find a clutch of 12 eggs in the nest box of my 1.1 rankin's/lawson's dragons. 3 of the eggs were pearl white but very deflated. I'll assume those were infertile and won't re-constitute.
The other 9 eggs look perfect and were set up in a vermiculite substrate base to be incubated in the low 80's. I'm guessing that like P. vitticeps they'll take 60-70 days to hatch.
What amazed me was that the eggs were the size of bearded dragons. They are much larger relative to the size of the female than I expected. A smaller clutch size would probably amount to the same egg mass/body mass of the female.
She's already had a good drink and eaten. I'll keep her separated from the male who started a breeding display as soon as she emerged from the nest box.
I'll post pictures later and keep the blog updated on the progress of these much-less-common dragons.
Matt
