My Jackson is having babies and I am on vacation.. Please help!

[Hinzfamily]

I bought a female Jackson from petsmart about three weeks ago. I have posted a few times about her since. The first post was wondering if she could be pregnant because she was very fat, and the second post was that I couldn't get her to eat for the life of me. We'll guess what... Big surprise she is having babies, or so we think. I left three days ago for vacation (Hawaii)and have my friend coming over twice a day. She has an automatic mister so he just turns on and off the lights, turns on the dripper, and tries to feed her. Tonight when he went over he found two poops and clear/orange slimmy sacs hanging from the tree leaves. She last ate on Friday and she only ate two medium crickets. My friend said he looked up what the sac look like on the internet and they looked identical. Now the problem... There were no babies to be found. Do you think she ate them? Do you think she will have more? My friend is doing me a huge favor by taking care of her and I can't ask him to check on her every hour so will she eat them all if he only goes there at 8am and 8pm each day? If she is. Indeed having the babies how long will this go on? I feel awful that I am not there to help her and the little babies, but I have had this vacation planned with my family since July, and we had NO CLUE when we purchase her that she was pregnant.

 

[Lathis]

She could be dropping slugs (unfertilized babies). That is something that may happen naturally even with no exposure to males. I have not had a female, so I can't be more help than that, but if your friend found sacks but no baby chams, they may not be fertilized.

Hopefully, someone with more Jax experience can jump in here and give some better advice. Try to enjoy your vacation in the meantime

 

[fluxlizard]

slugs look like yellow jellybeans sort of.

but the babies are born in sacks. They break through the membrane moments after birth. If the environment is bad (poor humidity) they will not break through the sacks. Also if the babies are weak (poor maternal nutrition) they may not break through the sacks.

If your friend is seeing yellowish orangish blobs and nothing else- those are infertile slugs.
If the sacks are in fact sacks and are not orangeish- babies would likely have been inside. But by the time you read this are probably dried up...

Could be babies may follow if there are only slugs so far...

 

[Hinzfamily]

Thank you for your replies. I will send this information to my friend. Does it make sense that she has had three poops in two days without eating the crickets he has been trying to feed her? In the three weeks I have had her she has only had four or five poops, so I thought it was strange that she had three in one day. I absolutely hate not being there!

I attached a pic of her drinking right before we left.