06-11-2010, 06:44 PM | #1 |
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My female margies has been digging with her back legs, started about 4ish, but has stopped since I put food in is this normal??? She's happily eating at the moment any ideas???
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It's very easy for some females to get distracted when trying to lay. Do you have the substrate deep enough for her to dig a nest and is it damp enough to hold together when she digs? Is she alone?
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I changed it today, she's on her own, how deep
is deep enough she's had 4 bags of top soil put in? I am placing a bit more where she's been digging, I dug a hole and it's stayed as a hole |
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About 8 inches should do.
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you need to mix with playsand if possible , fill the hole back in, place a heat lamp above the soil so it warms it up ( max 30c ), you should see her pacing around climbing over everything ( but not always ) , just check her every few hours.
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Ok will just leave her too it and keep my eye on her
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It's the warm end she's nesting
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No cause she has only started acting like this, and I dunno what I'm doing or what I'm
ment to do, I can't afford one |
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