receptive female veiled not eating much

[blschultz]

I was just wondering if it was normal for my female cham to not eat much while she's receptive.. she is normally a little piggy and eats everything within about a minute of being put into her cage. But the last few days she has still had some crickets in her cage. She is normally like this when she's prego but not before. She is eating some but just not with her normal gusto and I'm starting to get worried.

 

[twatts704]

Well, my Betty (ambilobe Panther) just laid yesterday and she is normal a cow as well when it comes to eating. When she became gravid though she ate less and less. But right before she was about to lay which was maybe the day before or 2 days before she laid she ate a bunch! Came out and laid a perfect 24 eggs I wouldn't be so worried. Just keep trying and I found that when she was gravid that she was more timid to be hand feeding her so I used the cup method and that worked a lot better. Sometimes their moods change when they become gravid so they are going to be a little bit more shy than normal and maybe even more aggressive. But that is how I would handle it. I'm sure she is going to be fine though