Pre Ov Soaking

I get most of my bowls from the 99cents store. For my bigger bowls I get small kitty litter pans from Walmart.

I noticed my largest pastel female soaking for roughly 3 weeks she promptly ovulated after she finished soaking.

Midway through her soaking days I asked on a different forum if anyone had noticed their females spending a ton of soaking right before ovulation. Unfortunately all that got me was a ton of advice on how to treat mites, and a lot of people pretty sure I had a snake that was either dehydrated, over heating, or infested with invisible mites...

Anyways, nice to find out that it is not just me and others have witnessed this same behavior.

Currently the pastel female is almost done with her pre-lay shed and has 7 eggs aching to come out.

I also noticed a recently acquired possible het-ghost female was spending a ton of time in her water dish. She is plenty big to breed, and had been cycled by her previous owner, so I assumed she had just not been ready. The soaking made me suspicious, so I threw one of my het ghost males in with her, and they hooked up and then she went back to soaking. Did that a couple more times and then my suspicions were confirmed. She ovulated 5 days ago. I am definitely going to make a habit of giving females I want to breed a bowl large enough to soak in.

Very interesting, I have noticed this, but my bowls are not big enough for most of my gals. But I see them crammed in anyway. I guess I will be off to the $1.00 store.

Any one in need of some large but not large enough bowls. lol:gj:

Very nice that spider and ghost are SMOKING!!!!!!!!!! hot!