• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Leo eggs! These things are huge!

bekers71

bekers71

What addiction?!
So let me give a quick story. I was working on a trade with a lady and she offered me 2 leos as part of the deal. This girl was offered but I was warned that she was very skinny due to her laying infertile eggs since she was about 7 months old. They arrived here in March and the female weighed about 23 grams, thin tail and you could see her ribs. After a few weeks she was more active, eating well and gained weight. But I knew at some point she would lay infertile eggs again and lose it.

So my thinking was, if she's going to lay eggs any way, why not breed her and have good eggs. Maybe laying the infertile eggs takes too much out of her? Depleting her system of nutrients and calcium. So I bred her. She was 37 grams before she laid the eggs and 28 after. But these are some big eggs so it's expected she'd lose a lot. She still looks good though. Tail is fat and she has "meat" left on her ribs. After laying she went straight to the water and food bowls. So let's hope this is what it took to get her on the road to healthy. :)

Pic 1- Mom
Pic 2- Eggs They are as big as some cornsnake eggs!
Pic 3- Dad

P1250048.JPG

P1250052.JPG

P1250056.JPG
 
Im not sure how it is with Leos but I know when I had my female bearded dragon and she was gravid with infertile eggs we would have to up her calcium supplements, poor girl was an egg laying machine last year at 64 eggs spread out over three clutches.
It sounds like the leo does want to eat and everything though so I would keep offering food, water and make sure to dust it with vitamins.
And those eggs are HUGE, i have never seen leo eggs before, its hard to imagine something that large coming out of something so small.
 
those are some huge eggs for the size of the lizards! how could she lay those and NOT lose a ton of weight?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top