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She is sittingstanding over them and wont leave her laybox. Will she snap at me if I try to move her?

I also noticed that they may have rolled a little but by her moving around a tiny bit, not totally over. Will they be ok as long as I take them as I find them, mark the top, and put them like that in the incubator?

Just reach in an pick her up. My leo was guarding her eggs but dashed out of the box as soon as I reached in. They typically aren't the most loyal mothers!!! Just put the eggs in the incubator the way you found them....they'll be fine.

Cleo
1:1 leos...soon to be 1:5!!!

i doubt they're gaurding the eggs. pythons, i believe, gaurd their eggs because they incubate them theirselves in the wild. leopard geckos, lay them and ditch them in the wild. i think that she is just too lazy to move, or hadnt gotten a chance to move yet.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

She never stopped watching me while I put the eggs in the incubator. After I removed her eggs, I put the box back in the tank and she dashed in right away and began to dig furiously, stopping to sniff every few seconds. After a minute or two, she slowly walked out of the box looking slightly confused.

Cleo
1:1 leos...soon to be 1:5!!!

hey thats how my female was too. its cute really. this was her first year every laying eggs. she pushed all the vermiculite to one side of the box, laid the eggs right on the plastic, and held them there with her tail and foot until i woke the next moring and found them. she did that a couple times but on her third clutch she barried them so it took me a few minutes to realize she actually laid them. when i took them out she dug aroud, either to "recover them" or to look for them.

I just took the lid off and picked her up, she seemed totally normal. Got the eggs in perlite in my incubator now.. I cant wait til they hatch, if they're fertile :

Aww, she went back into the laybox after I removed the eggs and now she's digging around probably thinking "I know I laid them here! I know it!! WHERE ARE THEY???"