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Also, I had some questions. Now, I'm gonna be splitting my guys up (moving my male out of my main tank into a smaller set up for just him) and leaving my three girls together in the 29 gal as soon as I move this weekend. I'm going to bed them with paper towels since that seems to be the consesus of the bext stuff to use around here. However, I have some questions about my older girl . . .

She layed eggs again on Thursday, both of which were deflated and dry . . . however nice looking that they were probably originally fertile. But she didn't lay in my humid hide. She laid in the open. My humid hide is made up with Bed-A-Beast and I have a deli container lid under it (I have this cave thing on top I got at work) to keep the rest of the substrate dry. Do you guys think that that could be causing her to not want to lay in the humid hide?? I mist it 2-3 times a day and my night time light, which I actually leave on 24 hours to help keep the heat up since it's a taller tank (29 tall), is right over my hide. Any ideas??
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Trish
1.0.0 Albino Leopard Gecko
0.1.0 Hypo-Something Leopard Gecko
1.0.0 Rat
0.1.0 Cockatiel
0.1.0 Pitbull/Golden Retriever
0.2.0 Cats
0.1.0 Horse
And who knows how many fish

Trish, I know you have your husbadry in order..... Something you should consider doing is keeping gravid females away from the rest of your collection..... Leos want to be by them selves when they are about to lay..... They will drop eggs anywhere when they are stressed..... Sometimes cage mates will hog the humid hide and the female cant get in to lay her eggs.... If you can, keep your female separate from the rest of you leos....

Good luck....

I never thought of that, Gregg. It does make perfect sense though. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try that.
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Trish
1.0.0 Bells Albino Leopard Gecko "Lyle"
0.1.0 Hypo-Gold Leopard Gecko "Goldie"
0.1.0 High Yellow Jungle Leopard Gecko "Lucky"
0.1.0 Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail Leopard Gecko "Storm"
0.1.0 Cockatiel "Jewel"
0.1.0 Pitbull/Golden Retriever "Guiness"
0.2.0 Cats "Athena" and "Violet"
0.1.0 Horse "Arian Gold Karma"
And who knows how many fish

it might be too small? I thought of doing just that arrangement with a coconut, but decided it would be much too small for her to dig and move around freely.
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1.0 Blizzard Bill
1.0 Hypo stripe, Het Rainwater from JL (BJ)
1.0 HypoTang from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Tremper Albino (Cloud)
0.2 Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko (Beatrice, Pepper, Goldie-now w/SD)
0.1 Normal (Freckles)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko (Brite)
0.1 Tangy Mutt Leopard Gecko (Rainbow)
0.1 Tremper Albino (Leucy)
2 screamers born 3/15/05
RIP Peaches, Ghost
13 eggs a-cookin'