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01-Nov-07, 11:11 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: QLD Age/Gender: 26  | | |
Hi all, just wondering if anyone can shed some light! My female Frilly was gravid, I could feel the eggs in her tummy. Swollen belly. But just when I thought that it was time for her to lay, I cant feel the eggs any more? They were quite large in her belly, now nothing?
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01-Nov-07, 11:12 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: QLD Age/Gender: 26 | | | | I forgot to mesion that, yes I did check the tank for eggs! No trace.
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01-Nov-07, 11:21 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27 | | | | Maybe she reabsorbed them???
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01-Nov-07, 11:22 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Brisvegas | | | | Is she in with a male? Perhaps he ate them? |
01-Nov-07, 11:28 AM
|  | Crab Battle Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Penrith/ Sydney Age/Gender: 18 | | | or maybe she ate em 
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01-Nov-07, 11:33 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: QLD Age/Gender: 26 | | | | I had her housed by herself, I took the male out. Can they absorb them? has anyone ever had their female lay & then eat them?
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01-Nov-07, 12:51 PM
|  | is....McLovin Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: northern suburbs-Sydney Age/Gender: 15 | | | | my female beardy layed and then ate 1 of the 20.
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01-Nov-07, 12:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | I would say the most likely scenario was that you were mistaken and she wasn't gravid in the first place.
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01-Nov-07, 01:57 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: mornington peninsula,vic Age: 33 | | | | yeah she may not have actually been gravid,also sometimes u cant see the eggs inthem,so she could still be carrying,ive had a male ridgey eat most of the eggs from my females last 3 clutches,never had a prob with the female eating them,just keep an eye on her,as if u felt thr eggs,there is the possability shes still carrying them,u just cant feel them anymore |
01-Nov-07, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Lucas  Maybe she reabsorbed them??? |  thats what i reckon
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01-Nov-07, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Lucas Maybe she reabsorbed them??? | Is there actually any evidence that snakes and lizards can reabsorb eggs? I would have thought they would sooner pass them than re-absorb.
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01-Nov-07, 02:12 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: May-06 Location: Somewhere in between the beach and the bush Age/Gender: 27 | | | I'm honestly not sure if there is any evidence. I've never looked into it, never thought to.
It just flashed to me, I've heard of it somewhere, once upon a time, long, long ago 
Something about reabsorbing due to malnourishment????
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01-Nov-07, 02:13 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: here | | | | Eggs cant be reabsorbed period.Most likely wasnt gravid in the first place. |
01-Nov-07, 02:13 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Darwin NT Age/Gender: 23 | | | | I would have thought if they weren't well nourished they just wouldn't produce eggs. I certaintly don't think they could reabsorb after ovulating.
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01-Nov-07, 03:06 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | | They can reabsorb after ovulating. Birds can do it too. If halfway through 'gestation' in the belly there's suddenly not enough of something to keep going they 'suck 'em back up'.
Birds do it if the egg drops into the body cavity instead of the genital tract. Reabsorb the suckers. Dunno enogh about reptile repro anatomy to comment on whether it would happen in lizards or not.. | | |
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