Hey all!
This totally sux that this has to be my first post on this site but I really need some help!!!
So I've had a pair of what I thought were two female beardies living peacefully together for about two years now. On November 18th I came downstairs where their cage is to make my morning coffee and to my complete surprise caught them "doing the deed". Within a week she started acting like a gravid beardie, pacing nonstop, digging, trying to get out of her cage and so forth so I separated the two and put a lay box in her cage filled with about 8-9 inches of a sand/vermiculite mixture. She wanted nothing to do with it so I bought a large 4ft long by 2.5ft high tote and filled it half way with damp vermiculite. She dug around for a while and then just stopped and starting acting like a completely normal, not gravid, bearded dragon again. She's had all the proper husbandry stuff, uvb, calcium dusted dubia and greens everyday, fresh water, and so on. Conditions were spot on in her enclosure but just refused to lay.
On Christmas night my husband peaked into her cage and found a single egg sitting ontop on the bedding. It looked as if she was trying to poop and pushed an egg out instead. It was a healthy, fertile egg already full on red viens so I put in right into the incubator. The same thing happened again yesterday, another big healthy fertile egg, so I put that one into the incubator too.
This morning I went into the reptile room where she currently is being housed and for the first time seemed a little...off. She's still very alert and tries to eat my hand when I go into the cage but she just looks horribley uncomfortable and its moving into week 6 soon of her pregnancy and I'm starting to get worried that she may have become egg bound.
She's still eating as of yesterday and is alert but a little sluggish, she looks like a little balloon.
Is there anything I can do from home? I'm completely broke right now from the holidays and having to pay my rent yesterday I just can'y afford a major vet visit quite yet, at least until the end of next week when my husband gets payed but I don't want her to die. What can I do?!?!
This totally sux that this has to be my first post on this site but I really need some help!!!
So I've had a pair of what I thought were two female beardies living peacefully together for about two years now. On November 18th I came downstairs where their cage is to make my morning coffee and to my complete surprise caught them "doing the deed". Within a week she started acting like a gravid beardie, pacing nonstop, digging, trying to get out of her cage and so forth so I separated the two and put a lay box in her cage filled with about 8-9 inches of a sand/vermiculite mixture. She wanted nothing to do with it so I bought a large 4ft long by 2.5ft high tote and filled it half way with damp vermiculite. She dug around for a while and then just stopped and starting acting like a completely normal, not gravid, bearded dragon again. She's had all the proper husbandry stuff, uvb, calcium dusted dubia and greens everyday, fresh water, and so on. Conditions were spot on in her enclosure but just refused to lay.
On Christmas night my husband peaked into her cage and found a single egg sitting ontop on the bedding. It looked as if she was trying to poop and pushed an egg out instead. It was a healthy, fertile egg already full on red viens so I put in right into the incubator. The same thing happened again yesterday, another big healthy fertile egg, so I put that one into the incubator too.
This morning I went into the reptile room where she currently is being housed and for the first time seemed a little...off. She's still very alert and tries to eat my hand when I go into the cage but she just looks horribley uncomfortable and its moving into week 6 soon of her pregnancy and I'm starting to get worried that she may have become egg bound.
She's still eating as of yesterday and is alert but a little sluggish, she looks like a little balloon.
Is there anything I can do from home? I'm completely broke right now from the holidays and having to pay my rent yesterday I just can'y afford a major vet visit quite yet, at least until the end of next week when my husband gets payed but I don't want her to die. What can I do?!?!
