First clutch paranoia!

ZacharyLeesWife

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My dilly bean looks like a bag of marbles! She's still eating, but not much and she drinks like normal but her eyes look a little sunken to me. I'm giving her reptiboost daily in lieu of dust, as recommended by her vet. She first showed me her gravid colors the end of October, and she's not shown any interest in her laying bin yet so I don't think she's quite ready but she looks like she's gonna pop! I still have her in her normal cage, but it's covered and the laying bin is in it. I might give it another week before I try the trashcan lay bin method.

Sunken or me being paranoid?
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Like a bag of marbles!
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Does she have any history of calcium deficiency? Otherwise I would let her do her thing and stick to your plan. She seems to be on track in my opinion but someone else may have more advice.
 
Does she have any history of calcium deficiency? Otherwise I would let her do her thing and stick to your plan. She seems to be on track in my opinion but someone else may have more advice.
She had lovely dense bones at her first visit about 5 months ago, so I've done the standard calcium wo d3 daily and alternate vitamins and calcium with d3 on Sundays. I added the reptiboost when the vet got worried about her appetite dropping off so early in the egg cycle but I also removed the other supplements for fear of overdose.
 
I wouldn't remove her plain calcium, in my opinion a gravid female veiled has no way to over dose of plain calcium when creating eggs. Though you might want wait on another though process. In fact when I have gravid female veileds in my care I usually give them liquid calcium beforehand and a little bit after no matter their bone density just because of the amount of calcium making eggs and laying takes out of the body.
 
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