I love Leopards but living in Maryland and not being independently wealthy went with a Red foot tortoise who stay a lot smaller in most cases. As already mentioned you need a lot of room for these guys. Most people keep them wrong because of educational ignorance, or because they wanted a big...
Outdoor torts can easily go unnoticed since most hide during the day when it's bright out. Also most outdoor enclosures are heavily planted to provide protection and shade so they can be easy to miss. I also would echo the owners may not have known where to post, or may have posted in areas...
It's very normal for them to hide during the day and be shy. In the wild if this wasn't a natural instinct they'd be eaten fairly quick. Red foots also hate bright light. Mine stays in her night box all day until the sun moves out of the yard around 5 even with plenty of plants to hide in...
Mine comes in at night because I'm a spaz so my night box is really just her large hide during the day when it's hot out but we keep it open. I used a 12x10 dog kennel staked into the ground and covered the bottom one foot in deer cloth so she can't climb and see out. I do not use a cover...
Depending on the time of year my RF often night feeds in late spring/summer because of the heat outside. She spends most of her day nestled in her outdoor tort box filled with wet coco coir and comes out around 5 to eat before I toss her back in her indoor enclosure for the night. Her food is...
Hmmmm usually only fertile eggs explode when something goes wrong, but your female may just need more time to lay fertile eggs and they're duds. Could also be temp fluctuations you're missing.