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I am just curious about how other gravid females’ act.

My female Disa is gravid and about to lay her second clutch any day now (this is the second year she is bred). She is soooo veeeeery restless.

Her lights are turned on by 8 am but she is up around 7 – scratching and running around. She constantly does this until the lights goes off at 9 PM. Then she scratches for another 15 minutes or so before she finally goes to sleep. When I say constantly – I MEAN constantly. Maybe she basks for 5 minutes (at the MOST) every hour or so. If I let her out to run in my apartment she runs for HOURS - if I let her. When out of the cage she scratches at doors and walls as well… I once left her out to see how long it would go on, and she ran *non-stop* for 3 hours. Then I couldn’t let her be out of the warm cage so I put her in again.

She scratches and digs in her cage every waking minute (anywhere but in the egglayingbox).

I am just curious to hear if other breeders’ females act this way – or is my Disa “special”?

I have never heard anyone else “complain” about their restless females, I love my little girl but I have to admit that it sometimes gets on my nerves to hear this scratching all the time. And I feel so sorry for HER that she can’t relax one single minute.

This usually goes on for 7-9 days before she finally lays her eggs.

I am not worried or anything, I just want to hear other peoples’ experiences – so please tell me how YOU’RE gravid female acts!

/Gunilla

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LOL

I have one here that does the same thing. She is constantly running and scratching around for an entire week before deciding to actually lay.
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>>LOL
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>>I have one here that does the same thing. She is constantly running and scratching around for an entire week before deciding to actually lay.
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I thought I would go nuts listening to that dig dig dig and thumping and banging around.
She's probably feeling like a human feels. "GAWD!! I wish this was over"!!!!!
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>>I thought I would go nuts listening to that dig dig dig and thumping and banging around.
>>She's probably feeling like a human feels. "GAWD!! I wish this was over"!!!!!
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My experience with this would tell me she is really close to laying!! My female Candy did this for two days and laid. I know your female tends to lay early as she did her first clutch last time right? How many days is she into this one? My female showed odd behavior for only 2 days scratching in her cage, and when I took her out she was running the floors too. The third day at 21 days into being gravid I put her in the bin and she laid. The second clutch she laid exactly 31 days later and showed minimum signs except for digging in the corner of her cage and she laid her second clutch. Which leads me and other experienced breeders I've talked to to think she already was starting her cycle and had eggs starting already when she mated the first time causing the early laying. just a thought. I would set her bin up and see what she does if she is as restless as you describe she might have been into her cycle when bred and will lay early again. Both times Candy laid, her symptoms were very subtle. Not eating much and looking a little restless in her cage digging in the corners and she laid when I put her in her laying bin within an hour.
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this last time that she actually wore her nails completely off. Right down to the digit. I felt really bad for her because she had been digging for 2 1/2 weeks. I put a cover on her laying bin and she layed within two hours.

Mike
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