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Mushu laid 11 eggs on June 8-9.

40 days from me catching them mating and laying, although I know they mated a few more times after May 1st.

200 days from now there will be more salvator babies.

I still have 3 eggs from the March laying. Those are at about the halfway point in the incubation period.

Pics are on my salvator page. They're the pics at the bottom.

Enjoy.
salvators

Hey, those are some informative pics!
I wonder if it bothers her to be photographed at that time, or if its like human females, they don't care who is in the room at the time...
Did Mushu try to defend the nest at all?

Best wishes! D.

wow, how many f. homo sapiens do you know like that?...Im speechless

I based my comment on what my sister and friend says.
With my sister's first kid, they brought in a group of college interns, (with her permission of course!) She said a couple of them went white as a sheet.
I think I would too.
D.

Actually, Mushu's eyes were closed when I took those pics and I am not sure she was ever really aware of me. If she was, she did not show it. She didn't change breathing or move. I have taken a few other pics of her at night while laying and she has seen me. Sometimes she will stop for a moment and resume, and sometimes she stops and waits. She never really makes a strong effort to defend the nest, but she has watched me dig up the eggs several times. I always feel guilty about that because she does not know that I am not eating them. Occasionally she will flip her tail but that's when I move too fast near her rather than any real defensiveness. She does that anytime you move too fast, not just raiding her nests.

I'm not sure how human females are in delivery rooms. I've never been in one. Would like to be someday, but that's probably not happening anytime soon.

How do you have the rest of the room set up? Is there dirt all over the floor too? You mentioned that you had the carpet torn out at the old place. I like your nesting area with the grass growing...neat idea.
As far as the Iguana...Heres my deep dark secret... Before I got my female Timor, I actually had Pugde, my male housed with two beardies for a few months...maybe thats why hes so laid back now.
Michelle

I'll try to get a few pics of the room setup tomorrow.

The dirt box is 6x3x3 and on wheels. That makes it moveable (not easily, but it does move) and it elevates it enough for the monitors to hide under. However, I need to elevate it a bit more as Labyrinth is rubbing his back raw by squeezing under there. Mushu never did use that as a hiding spot and does not hide all that often even when presented with hiding options. There is a 6 foot x 10"? trough for water. A big tree stump more for looks than utility. Then in the closet area I have a shelf up top for the iguana. There is also a basking lamp up there. The iguana tends to stay up there most of the time looking down on everything. A large tree branch goes up to the shelf. I have seen Lanyrinth up there a few times but not often. Petrie and Labyrinth have always both been up there and seemingly indifferent to each other's presence. There are planters on the walls which held pothos until the iguana entered the room. There is a large custom made enclosure (36"x18"x18"mounted on one of the walls for a day gecko. Also, there is an aquarium with a tokay in it mounted on the wall as well. I had hoped these enclosures would be cool in there, but I have found I tend to neglect both geckos so I need to move their enclosures elsewhere. Occasionally, I get the itching to let the tokay run free in the room (and providing him hiding options near and on the ceiling for daylight safety). He'd be active at night while the water monitors slept. I also know that at some point he'd be eaten, which is why I never actually let him loose (I like him).

The floor is cheap vinyl tile. Not so good, I should have bought a better tile. Only dirt on the floor is the dirt the monitors toss on the floor.

If and when I remove the custom gecko enclosure, I will mount a tree limb between two walls and give the iguana another climbing area. It is also possible that with enough climbing areas I would move a second iguana into that room (probably not).

I loved the grass idea but could never get it to take root. It died off. I also potted a shrub which you can see in the pics, but the iguana ate it every time it grew sprouts and it is now dead. I still like the grass in the enclosure because it seems to keep the humidity in the dirt even though it is dead. I have gotten grass seed to take root in my timor enclosure and it looks nice. The sod pieces died.

Hope that helps.