You shouldn’t be moving at all before laying.
This will stress them out and you risk them becoming egg bound.
I suggest putting her back into her enclosure which she knows and is happy in. And having a laybox in there at all times. Don’t remove it. Leave it in as ‘bio’ is a lot better for geckos. So she’d enjoy it.
No gecko should be moved somewhere different to lay…
@ghoulishcresties Her original enclosure is a bioactive enclosure. I’d lose the eggs so easily in the tons of substrate, that’s why I’ve been moving them. I never move the geckos days before laying, I know that will stress them. I wasn’t aware that moving them a few weeks before laying would stress them. I guess I never thought of geckos getting stressed through that. My one female, Banana, does it all the time, and loves both of her enclosures. But she is a super calm more “go with the flow” gecko. So I guess I never thought that not all my geckos would respond that way.
I have bio with Cresties and I just dig around, yes not ideal but they’re happy girls!
I would leave her to lay in her home. Yes moving will stress and if she becomes egg bound there’s a risk of losing her…
So defo leave her in her enclosure
Alrighty guys… I moved my girl back to her original enclosure. She’s been there for awhile now. She still hasn’t laid the eggs though! She’s acting fine and is eating and drinking well. Any thoughts? I’m considering taking her to the vet, because I’ve done lot’s of research and I’m still unsure of what’s going on.
It’s difficult to say, my cresties take about an average of 2 weeks to settle into a new enclosure, without carrying eggs. But she sings pretty settled.
Might be worth taking her to the vets to see if there really are eggs!
Thanks @spottedbull! Who knows, maybe in the next few years we end up finding him a female and trying our luck at breeding him. Super excited to have him in the family.
Thanks Riley! He’s a stripe from what the breeder had said. Somewhere around 3 years old, we’ll get the hatch date once they get home and unpacked from tinley. I’m still learning geckos and what not, so need to figure out how to get photos of him fired up/fired down and learn the difference. He’s a lot darker this morning when I checked on him.