Hi Heather...Originally Posted by heathers*bps
No eggs yet, we took her to a reptile specialist and had a full exam and eventually an ultrasound. She is not egg bound and we were told that the eggs are healthy and developed. The vet that we dealt with is actually a breeder as well and gave us a lot of helpful insight as to what may be the problem. He suspected that she may be slightly calcium deficient so we are going to be switching our gut load and we gave her a calcium supplement to try and help her along.
Since she is still energetic, has bright color and is generally acting as she normally would with the exception of being a little bit more picky with food we will be changing a few things in our husbandry.
We had a lay box for her with Eco-earth as a laying medium which she didn't seem to like so we have switched that to vermiculite. She seems to like it better already and we have seen her digging where as she never dug in the old lay box. We have also changed our substrate from beta chips paper towl for the time being and have added a UVB light. I know UVB lights are controversial when it comes to whether or not geckos need them, but at this point we are ready to give anything a go to get her comfortable and laying.
Basically we were told that we still have a healthy girl and that being her first time she may just not know what to do. We have a follow-up appointment scheduled if she doesn't lay within the next week or so to check the eggs again to see if she is absorbing or if the state of the eggs or her health has changed.
Thanks for your concern and for checking up on her... On a bonus note though my female pewter came off a 4 month hunger strike tonight, phew.
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