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i have a pair of aussie water dragons and i recently seperated them because the female looked a little beat up one day and i was concerned they were fighting, it is a male and female pair, but i didnt think that there was breeding activity. to make a long story short, i was cleaning the females cage today and i found four eggs. the eggs were dried up and look dead now i guess i didnt find them in time, i had newspaper in her cage so there wasnt much moisture in the substrate. the concern i have is that there was only four, i am just wondring if there are things i should keep a look out for as far as her retaining eggs. she doesnt appear to be and i felt her stomach gently, but is four a common number for the first clutch and a young dragon? or maybe she ate some? not sure but i am concerned about her so if anyone has any advice let me know.

I haven't kept Australian water dragons, but with green water dragons and quite a few other lizards that I know about, the first clutches are often smaller.

In a lot of species of reptile the first clutch is smaller and if it isnt then sometimes a good amount of the eggs are not good. The next one probally will be a bit bigger if you even want another one clutch. If you still want to keep her on paper put a container with about 5 inches of a good soil,etc in it for her to lay them in.
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if you have a pair of any lizard you need to have some place for them to lay their eggs, thats like the #1 rule, otherwise they could get eggbinding problems. which can be fixed with a surgery but thats a pain in the butt and if you can avoid it that easily it shoud be avoided.