I think she's ovulating

[rodentslayer]

This is my first year breeding and here's one of my girls. She's been glowing for about a month, has shed 3 times so far during cool down, and hasnt eaten in about a month. I figured I missed ovulation and she was gravid and about to lay. Her last shed was 12/22, so I have been looking everyday for eggs. I checked on her today and she's is blown up. For all of the newbie's, if you think you missed ovulation and you check everyday, then she didn't ovulate yet. It is so obvious in person. Just a little info on her breeding:
Cooldown: Sept 24th
Locks:
11-7 w/ Fire
11-18 w/ Fire
12-9 w/ Fire
12-23 w/ Fire
12-30 w/ Pastel

Sheds:
9-25
11-15
12-22


Shot with E5200 at 2009-01-21

HTH's,
Jordan

[panthercz]

Awesome!

[SGExotics]

Yea, shes definately filled up with eggs. Looks like she swallowed a football right?

[rodentslayer]

Ooooh yeah! That part of her body is hard and she has been looking miserable for a few weeks and laying in odd positions like she has a belly ache. Now I know why.

[MDB]

have you felt and counted eggs yet???

[Drew87]

Big congrats!!!! Best of luck

[Wh00h0069]

Looks like it to me. Grats!

[rodentslayer]

I have tried counting follicles and I could only recognize the follicles in one of my girls, which was very obvious and felt exactly like a string of pearls. With the rest of them, including this one, I can't feel anything besides rat and gas bubbles. Now I have to wait and see if I can feel for eggs. Right now its just a solid hard mass. Im a total newbie on this stuff and i'm learning as I go.

[rodentslayer]

Well, she laid on the predicted day with the exact number that I felt in her. 8 fertile eggs with no slugs. Not bad for my first clutch ever. Last night she was laying inverted as predicted and she never does that, so I knew something was about to happen this morning.

I have a question about the substrate. I have the eggs on eggcrate suspended on spagnum moss. I couldn't find pearlite or vermiculite at lowes/hd without it being miracle gro and having chemicals in it. The moss has been incubating for about a week and I noticed a little mold growth in some areas of the moss today. Would it be safe to spray the moss with a sporicedan spray (mold killer)?

thanks
Jordan


Shot with E5200 at 2009-03-10

[nevohraalnavnoj]

They should have Perlite at Lowes/WM. Replace that moss with 1-2" of Perlite, with water almost to the top of it. Suspend the eggs on the egg crate (just as you are doing now).

I wouldn't spray chemicals in there.

JonV