egg laying spot

[apple]

i am using a 5 gallon bucket its about 15 inches tall/deep filled with soil mixed with sand...is this a good spot for her to lay eggs??

 

[Dean Pulcini]

I'm using a Home depot 5 gal. bucket with moist topsoil and a pre-started hole for my Ooran Mena . so far shes digging and dropping eggs at the same time.

 

[apple]

so your sayn i should pre dig a hole for her?how deep how wide>?

 

[Dean Pulcini]

I know this sounds weird but they like a snug fit . I used two fingers on a angle about 3 in. deep.

 

[apple]

hmm well then ill go do just that if you can please look at my other forum on the main page with pix of my female i am debating if she is gravid or not

 

[apple]

also should i put her net to the bucket or should i let her find it herself?

 

[Dean Pulcini]

My female has been in the bucket since Sunday and just started to dig today. I have grapevine that goes around the inside of the bucket thats where she slept last night.

 

[apple]

i have one of those bendable vines that goes rite into the bucket and a silk play that hang rite into it but she still just sit at the top of the 260 gal repterium in one spot under the uvb light

 

[Dean Pulcini]

When my females are gravid or ready to lay they avoid the heat/uv lamps they stay in the shadows and when they do go to the lamps its a short visit.

 

[apple]

i wrote this in a diff forum but today i picked up her poop and she had a few crickets un chewed just basically swallowed and pooped out what can this mean??

 

[Dean Pulcini]

Sounds like a digestion problem. I would check the temp at the basking spot she might not be digesting properly. I would raise the temps to it upper range for your species.

 

[apple]

the temp is like 90F but she is sitting under the uvb light which dosent produce heat