My brother gave my husband a pregnant blue belly that he found in my grandparents yard. We have it in a big fish tank with dirt, rocks, crickets, and water. For about two weeks, she was digging maniacly around her cage. She finally stopped a couple days ago, and I'm guessing she laid her eggs because she's much thinner (she had a HUGE belly with bulges sticking out) and her skin is darker. We have her heat lamp directed on the pile that we think the eggs are in. (She finally dug a deep hole and then kicked most of the dirt in the cage up on top of it). How many eggs did she lay? How many might actually hatch? When will they hatch? Will the babies survive? (my guess is no, as we have three small scorpions in the same tank - the lizard and the scorpions seem to not bother eachother, but will they eat the babies? Will SHE eat them?)
Answers:
No blue-bellied lizards do not eat their babies they eat big and small crickets and flies but they will not harm their babies in any way!
Please next time don't take anything from the wild unless it is hurt and you are going to nurse it back to health. Don't take it home to be killed by your scorpions.
that's a pretty jerk move seriously.... i wish i could put you in a cage with some cobra snakes
about the same scenario huh ?
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