Rosa the redfoot laid 7 more eggs

wendigo

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Rosa surprised us with a clutch of 3 eggs 11 weeks ago. I was able to save one, and it’s in the incubator looking fertile. Today I was hooking up her heat panel because it’s supposed to be in the 50s tonight and couldn’t find her. She was behind a coleus plant laying more eggs. Total for today is 7, and she buried them much deeper than the last clutch. Time will tell if they’re fertile, but now we have 8 eggs in the incubator.

After she lays eggs is their anything we should do to help her recover? Extra fruit, soak her etc?

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note that this was just when I dug them up, I did spread them out in 2 containers because I wasn’t sure if it was okay for them to be crowded like this

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the coleus on the right is where she laid her eggs
 

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You can ad foods with extra calcium if you wish. But with a proper and varied diet and access to UVB, I do not.
From the way your female looks (fantastic) I'd have no worries.
The last baby that hatched in my enclosure was from a few eggs I didn't notice. That baby thrived and survived nights well into the lower 50s. Even upper 40s.
 
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