Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 9:27 pm Re: Eating her own Eggs...?
Thank you for your reply. I have not tried "egg-feeling" recently, as I do not want to disturb her or make her feel unsafe in any way, especially if she has more. I made a nesting box (the traditional composted-material-with-sand type), and she has not laid any eggs in it. (I left her in it overnight, and throughout the afternoon the following day). So, thus far, she has only laid 2 or 3 eggs (I have for sure seen 2--I took one and I saw her eating another, when I got back with the nest box material; the huge amount of cloudiness that arose during my shopping trip heavily implies that a third was laid and eaten). I know that there is a large possibility she has more, but I don't know how to coax her into laying them. She didn't seem to have trouble getting the first ones out, so I'm a little hesitant about going through the whole X-ray-and-oxytocin routine.
I have been breaking up cuttle bone pieces for her; she swallows most of it, but spits quite a bit out. This especially concerns me, as one of the eggs I was able to retrieve seems a little "pasty" and thin-shelled in several spots. It is also more of a translucent orange, rather than white. I'm not sure if this is due to a calcium deficiency, so I have been feeding her a mix of Reptomin pellets and Fluker's Aquatic Turtle Diet (which has 2.5% more calcium than the Reptomin).