For some reason my female S. Parva has not laid any infertile oothecae. Not one and she has been adult for over three months or so. Why would this be? Even though she has not mated she should still lay ooths, right? She is so fat she is dragging her self around with her belly on the floor, so to speak. Any ideas????
S. Parva mom won't lay or can't lay ooths even though not mated
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Cosmic
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Try rearrangeing her enclousure, upping the humidity and adding some fresh living foilage, it's worked for me when I've had a non-laying female.
I agree with Cosmic. The changes he mentioned might induce her to lay... it's worth a shot. 
But even then, she may be egg-bound and never lay.
But even then, she may be egg-bound and never lay.if she's eggbound will this kill her she is now really sluggish and dragging more than yesterday and she is usually difficulty to pin down when I need to get to her to take her out of her enclosure. Today she just sat there.
Egg bound is her problem, and they usually live a good while that way, but dont have any idy how to fix it.
Me neither. I had a Creobroter female who was eggbound, was very fat and never laid. She was like that for about 3 months also. Then I noticed she was getting more "sluggish" as you say, and declined from there. Near the end it seemed like she couldn't even hold her abdomen up at all, and would stay around the bottom of the enclosure. It sucks, but there's really nothing I know of that you can do unfortunately.
