Completly buried / A first for me, or maybe I'm going blind.

[SSimsswiSS]

I put a female faly in a laying bin Tuesday night (which is actually start of her day with flipped ligthing schedule). Wednesday morning when I got up before the light switch off, she was no where to be seen. I looked over every inch of fairly empty cage (just a few branches under basking light and vines and branches leading down to sand).

I could see a area in sand where she might have dug and filled in, but that was it, and a small small bowel movement smack dab in the middle of bin was only trace of her.

So first thought was how did she get out? Did someone take her? Could she of pushed front doors open, in anyway and squeezed out? And if so, how far could she have gone. Was she hanging around the cricket bins. I've had some escapee's in the pass that always show up a day or two later, but I was puzzled as I dashed off to work.

So I got home just about the time lights start turning on Yesterday and there she was in the cage basking under the light with a nose full of sand and a skinny belly. Only thing I can think of is that she was completly buried under the sand with no trace of her depositing egg in one of the bottom corners.

I had a female lay the day before her, and she laid in almost the same place as this girl. So might have a double header of faly's this coming spring.

pic 1 - is the 2nd missing girl that magically reappeared last night.
pic 2 - is first faly on Tuesday morning, right before move her and digging up eggs.
pic 3 - is first female, waiting for me to feed her and get a face wash/rain/mist/drip.
pic 4 - is Dad.

 

[Dez]

I once had a panther girl dig a tunnel and instead of turning around to lay the eggs and exiting out of her entrance hole.. she layed down in the tunnel and continued to dig and emerged on the other side of the pot.

Another time I had a veiled that tunnel caved in on her and I ended up digging her out because I did not know where she was. She was fine although very angry

 

[Mike Fisher]

I once had a similar situation. Missing cham in a 55 gallon rubbermaid trash can. I dug up the whole thing thinking that the hole had caved in on her. No cham, no eggs.....The lid was on all the way so she couldn't have escaped right? I started analyzing the lid. It was vented right where the handles were on the lid, just enough for her to squeeze through. Found her up between the floor joists walking the coax cable like a tightrope.