I have spent a few months wondering where the eggs of my Varaderos are, and now I have figured it out. They are laying them in the leaf litter. They like this dead bromeliad leaf in particular, as evidenced by the two clutches (2 eggs on left, a few days old, and 1 egg on right, freshly laid).
Here's a close up of the freshly laid egg - it is at the 8 cell stage:
It's unusual for this species to lay in the leaf litter and this may indicate that they don't feel very secure laying further up in the terrarium. As a result, I plan on planting more plants in the upper third of the terrarium.
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Very cool. I told you that you would be hooked by darts and you said not going to happen, or something to that effect.
Founder of Frogforum.net (2008) and Caudata.org (2001)
Well, yeah not literally, but if darts were the size of elephants you have tons of darts.
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