New hatchlings

[TripleTGecko]

Hi there,
first of all my important question, what are you feeding your new hatchlings??
I'm really not sure, all the crickets and co look to big to feed.

Oh before i forget i will post some pics of my hatchlings, this evening or tomorrow so be enquiring ^^

 

[Brandonfb75]

I feed all my hatchlings mealworms and they love them. I know some people dont like feeding mealworms but I have never had a problem with them.

 

[MCE420]

I feed full size mealworms to all my hatchlings... If I feed crickets they don't get them until they're at least 25 grams or well established mealworm feeders... While crickets may be a more attractive prey item I find them a pain in the butt... Mealworms are so easy to keep and breed so you can always have a constant supply...

 

[TripleTGecko]

ok, thanks to you guys, i normally feed also mealworms, but i wasn't sure, if this little leos could eat full grown mealworms.
I will load up the pics tomorrow.
Thanks for now

 

[TripleTGecko]

This is my little new hatchling

This is my Enigma male

and this is my real beautiful Mack Snow and his Albino Girl

What do you think about them ?? ^^

 

[Palor]

I feed my hatchlings Phoenix Worms and baby roaches.

 

[fickle]

nice hatchling looks like a high yellow

 

[Sinosauropteryx]

Trouble with medium crickets

Unfortunately that seems to be one of the problems with crickets. Leopard geckos are rever able to handle the large ones until they're adults so in the meantime they have to put up with those smaller things that run faster, jump higher, hide more often, and are a heck of a lot more difficult for the keeper to catch and pick up. I still find them better than mealworms though, which is why I'm often willing to take the extra effort to either remove their back legs (another difficult job with mediums), remove just about every possible hiding place in the gecko's terrarium before feeding, or find a seperate feeding area. These guys tend to make using sand more hazardous because it takes more "gusto" on the gecko's end to catch them and that could involve getting a mouthful of substrate. One reason why I never let these guys run around in either of my leopard geckos' terrariums.

I like your Enigma but the two other adults are hard to see. I'll have to get a close-up of the picture. Oh, and the baby looks cute too. Nice job!

 

[Chewbecca]

Our hatchlings first meal was dubia nymphs in a dish.
They ate them.

Then we tried meal worms.
Now we're feeding small to medium super worms.

Sometimes I think that people make hatchlings seem more fragile than they are.

They can eat bigger food than most people think.

We had run out of feeders last week, and I did NOT even realize we had. I thought we had more roach nymphs left, but we did NOT.
We had no mealies and no supers (I was waiting on a shipment of 1,000 supers to arrive), so we HAD TO feed our hatchlings sub adult dubias.
I DO NOT recommend doing it, but we tried it.

Out of 12 hatchlings, all but one ate their sub adult dubia roach.

I wouldn't do that all the time, but they were ok with it the once.