My leopard gecko laid eggs without a male after over 5 years of having her.

[jamez8000]

I have had her for quite a while now and never knew females can lay eggs by themselves. I searched it up and stuff and the sources told me the eggs are not going to be fertile so it wont hatch for sure. So does that mean the egg wont hatch a 100 percent right? Also my gecko seems kinda weak now, i guess cause she just laid eggs? Also im now hearing about this thing called "egg bound". My female kept her eggs in for a while now i guess, so is she going to be fine?


BTW for the people that are going to be mad at me for my incompetence, im sorry beforehand. I thought i did enough research on leopard geckos before i got her. But at least i had her for over 5 years now, so im not a total newbie.

 

[acpart]

It does happen occasionally and there was nothing you could do about it. The eggs are nearly 100% likely to be infertile. I say "nearly 100%" because there have been cases in other reptiles (but not leopard geckos as far as I've heard) where some eggs were laid by a female gecko who had not been touch with a male and the eggs were fertile due to parthenogenesis (I had this happen with a bearded dragon that laid an egg that didn't hatch but had a fully formed fetus inside). As I mentioned, this is not known to happen with leopard geckos. Just feed her extra and she should regain her strength.

Aliza