and even more Chloe!
Chloe goes exploring, part II
Chloe goes exploring…
note the leaves, the result of an especially hard frost a couple of weeks ago
It’s Chloe! & she’s gravid, again!
it’s Chloe!
photo courtesy of the wife…
Chloe update…
…what a champ she is! Three days without eating or water, she excavated 2 burrows, the first one she started in her habitat while I was in town, so I decided to leave her be & see how it worked out. It eventually collapsed on her, so I moved her to the nesting site & she excavated a burrow of around 18 inches long, deposited her 53 eggs & then covered & packed it all in 13 hours! She is now feasting on crickets & lounging around under her basking lights. Marvelous creature, she is!
dig Chloe, dig!!
Chloe’s extremely gravid GPOYW !!
She is not pregnant, she is gravid. Which simply means that she is carrying eggs. They aren’t fertile.
Chloe update, she still has not laid her eggs! She is getting extremely fat with them. She settled into a nice gravid color pattern (lots of aqua dots & dark orange bands). She spends her days basking & eating a few crickets. Waiting for her to show zero interest in eating & renewed interest in looking for a nesting site. I have a 35 gal. trash can ready with a new soil/sand mix for her when she does. I’m attributing her erratic behavior the last few days to changes in hormone levels.
Chloe says Hi! aint she a purdy little girl ?
update on the egg laying ordeal: still no luck! She spends more time hanging out in the bottom of her habitat. the eggs are noticeably dropping down in her abdomen. Coloration is getting more vivid & she’s keeping the darker colors longer when she climbs to bask. Appetite is real good & still nimble as all get out.
