Where are the deserts?

[WingedWolfPsion]

I just read a very interesting bit that was posted on the Reptile Report (can't remember which forum it originated on). Someone had a female desert that, of course, became egg bound, so he got snapshots of the surgery to remove the eggs. As it turns out, she had extremely tight strictures in her ovaducts, and that's what prevented the eggs from passing. They could not be manipulated out, surgery was the only option. Said they couldn't even fit a catheter through the strictures.

So, NO, this is not a matter of breeding deserts that are too small. It is not going to magically resolve itself if you change the temperatures, or the feeding schedule, or whatever. These female deserts have physical defects in their ovaducts, and that is why they are dying.

The infertility problem is probably in addition to that, not caused by it, as obviously not all female deserts die right away, and they are able to pass some slugs, so some of their ovaducts don't have strictures.