[Matt K]

Finally hatched more of these...took waaaayyyy longer but I left them in there and POP, here they are:

TOO CUTE:




One in the top right corner and the other on the leaf:



Higher resolution version for a close up view:

[John_Woodward]

georgious, what did you observe as far as parent reactions were to the babies?

[Matt K]

The parents pretty much ignore them entirely. They do get plenty of dusted crickets right now though just so they don't get any ideas...

[tstratton]

They are so F***** cute!!!!

[Chum]

Very nice pictures! What camera did you take them with? (I assume you must have been using a rather big zoom linse, theese hatchlings are quite small afterall )

You mentioned that theese aren't your first hatchlings, how many have you hatched, and how old are your oldest now?
I ask because I hear that many have problems with keeping the hatchlings alive - apparently for some they just die at a few months of age.

[Matt K]

The oldest offspring are about one year old, these last two are the 8th and 9th to hatch from this pair. I normally only feed them roaches and crickets of appropriate size (1 cm or less) but when juveniles are present I offer a bottlecap with fruit babyfood or crested gecko diet of which the juvies and adults are seen licking it up. Juveniles are also offered various fruit flies adults and larva from another clean bottlecap- but the adutls get in and rob those too if not fed larger prey first.

I also have L.luteopicturatus and L.pakenhami, but do not have such luck rearing the yellowheads and no luck rearing the pakenhami at all, despite the uniform husbandry.

[Red Devil]

Hi babies are awesome. I have a couple of questions I hope you can answer. Are you just dusting your crickets and letting them loose in the tank or are they kept in a container that the williamsi can just go and help themselves?
Also what sort of crested gecko diet are you feeding? I am using the repashy diet a mixture of the base and peach nectar flavour and I havent seem them eat it once.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[WingedWolfPsion]

I'm personally using the normal Repashy CGD with mine. I got them to eat it by first offering peach babyfood, which they dove into enthusiastically. The I mixed half babyfood and half CGD--they loved that even more. After they were used to that, I reduced the babyfood until I wasn't using any of it at all, and they now eat straight CGD and love it.

At this point, I can put anything in that bowl, and they'll eat it...Clark's CGD, Repashy Mango 2 part CGD, whatever. lol.

[PrestonG]

Fantastic pictures Matt. It also sparked some good info from others on this thread.
Thanks everyone.