Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:49 am Re: Uncertain if gravid?
An update and good news. After the week wait and no eggs laid, we went to the vet this past Monday for another x-ray to confirm if she was still carrying eggs, which she was. The vet gave her an injection of oxytocin. She spent several hours in the nest box with no results, and as she was trying to get out of the box, I decided to put her back in the tank. Within an hour, she expelled an egg into the tank. No other eggs that day.
I was traveling for work yesterday, so she was in the tank for day except for a couple of hours when I got home, no eggs either in the tank or in the box. I scheduled another vet appointment for this morning, the vet gave her another injection of oxytocin, slightly more (20 units per kilogram) and I brought her home. I don't think we were back for an hour and she expelled an egg in the tank and within another 20 minutes or so, expelled the rest. All eggs seen on the x-ray are accounted for so we should be good.
**Edit: So far, two additional eggs not seen on the X-ray.
I have plans to finish our basement this summer/fall and due to this situation, think I will add in a larger indoor turtle pond enclosure that has an area for substrate at all times. I was wondering if the nest box is unfamiliar to her and simply not appealing. If something was always available, it would be considered "safe".
Madness will reign.