She laid!Maternal incubation.
Well my female pastel from an earlier post finally laid her eggs yesterday. 10 healthy plump eggs. pretty good for a first time girl. I have decided to do maternal incubation for this clutch so i am going to keep this thread updated throughout the process. I have her on cypress mulch to hold humidity better and also added some moist moss to the cage. I pushed the water dish slightly back in the tub so she does not have to move from the eggs to get a drink. I removed her from the eggs to place a temperature and hydrometer probe within the eggs to keep an eye on them accurately. Temp is perfect at 89. I then blocked the holes on the side of the tub to keep in humidity. I checked the eggs by candling to ensure they were all fertile(which they were) and to make sure they had adhered to the tub and each other so that they would not roll. the pictures attached are when i first saw the eggs before this process was done. I will post to this thread as she moves along in the time cycle.
also i would add in a word of advice not to try this with females of smaller sizes say under 2000 grams going into the breeding season. I say this because they would not be able to properly cover the eggs as this girl was big at 2400 grams and can just cover her ten eggs. Also she is in the second tub to the top of the rack.
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