longest time under ground

[casperpetersen]

hello
I´m curios to know how long time is the longest time your females have been under ground while digging and laying eggs (and survived it )

I have a female (from the dilepis complex) who have been digging for 48hours (in the same hole) and I have not seen her in about 24 hours... I´m begining too be a bit worried...

 

[BocaJan]

I would be worried also. Has the tunnel collapsed on top of her? It should not have taken her that long.

 

[reyesjoshuacruz]

ive seen fem veileds take 48hrs to digg and bury, when they took that long, i saw eggs in two spots.

one pocket of a large number of eggs towards the bottom of the chamber, and one smaller group a little higher.

get or make a stethoscope, or just get as close as you can and as quiet as you can and see if you can hear the scratching or digging

 

[casperpetersen]

finally she layed 54 good looking eggs after 50hours of digging

this is how she looked two days ago

and this is the clutch

 

[blackbetty]

Wow! Congrats!! DO you keep them covered? NM, I see lids now. Are there any holes in the lids? I ask because Ive read that some people drill a hole int eh center and some dont..

Is this your first fertile clutch?

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

WOW 50 hours. She must be tired. Congrats glad she was ok.

 

[BocaJan]

So glad everything turned out great.

 

[casperpetersen]

blackbetty... no this is not my first fertile clutch I have 36 roperi eggs from jan.
and 6 spinosus eggs allso from jan.... there is no holes yet... but in about a week or so I will prik some holes with a needle around the sides...

ryan... she looks great....you can´t see that she used 50 hours on that clutch


and I´m definitely glad that all worked out the way it did