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Hi, I'm breeding my 2 year old female blizzard, and she just layed her first clutch.. in the middle of the enclosure :/ I provide her with an egg laying box with moist moss in it, and she had been digging in there for the past few days. The box is over on the hot side, temperature is all fine and both eggs are fertile.

They were pretty caved in when I found them this morning, and I moved them asap to the incubator, but so far they're pretty soft and still caved in. Any idea why she did this, and if the eggs have chances of survival? I've never had a problem with my other females in the past.

Thanks

Is this her first clutch? If so then its not to surprising she "messed it up" many times they do. When my beardie laid her first batch of eggs she had a nesting box that she had been digging in for days and then laid her eggs all over the cage and buried them! I had to dig out her whole tank to find them! Out of almost 25eggs only 4 were salvagable, the rest had been smashed, squished, turned, stomped, or were infertile.

If this was her first time then maybe she will figure it out and lay her eggs in the spot provided for you when she lays her next clutch. To improve your chances i guess you could put a couple different nesting sites with different mediums in different parts of the tank so she can choose where she wants to lay.

Good luck!
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Yeah, it's her first clutch. I'm guessing that's what happened. I'm going to provide another egg laying box with dirt/sand (or vermiculite, which ever's the best?), hopefully she'll lay the next clutch in one of the boxes. I'm still incubating the eggs, but I doubt they're still alive, I have no idea how long they had been laying there before I found them :/

Thank you for the reply ^_^

How exactly do you know the eggs are fertile if they were caved in????

Also, an inexperianced egg layer will sometimes lay the eggs in the wrong place or you have not provided the correct egg laying environment..... They will also lay infertile eggs where ever they can..... Usually the first clutch of eggs are infertile, especially if it is the females first season..... Chances are, the eggs will not be fertile but I would keep them incubating anyway, just incase......

I candled both of them, and they both had the red ring where, I'm guessing, the embryo is attached. They weren't just yellow and empty like infertile eggs are.

Thanks, though