Little Leo problems?

[Schmidty]

I currently have a bearded dragon, a CA King and a leopard gecko, but I was thinking about getting two new baby leos to add to my collection.

One is a mack snow, and the other is a blizzard, both very beautiful babies whom I would love to love <3

Because I haven't personally raised baby leos, I was wondering what kind of illnesses or problems young ones are prone to, just so I can be prepared for the future.

I already have a tank ready for them with proper space, heating, and hides

 

[cricketsnieceandrepsitter]

I currently have a bearded dragon, a CA King and a leopard gecko, but I was thinking about getting two new baby leos to add to my collection.

One is a mack snow, and the other is a blizzard, both very beautiful babies whom I would love to love <3

Because I haven't personally raised baby leos, I was wondering what kind of illnesses or problems young ones are prone to, just so I can be prepared for the future.

I already have a tank ready for them with proper space, heating, and hides

The young ones just get stressed easier, but if you don't handle them much and take good care of them I don't think you will have much of a problem.

 

[Schmidty]

The young ones just get stressed easier, but if you don't handle them much and take good care of them I don't think you will have much of a problem.

Thank you!

 

[acpart]

Remember that if they're unsexed, you'll have to watch them carefully to make sure you have 2 females if you want to keep them together, and be ready to separate them if you have any other combination.

Aliza

 

[Schmidty]

Remember that if they're unsexed, you'll have to watch them carefully to make sure you have 2 females if you want to keep them together, and be ready to separate them if you have any other combination.

Aliza

Thanks for the advice, but I already plan to keep them separated until sexing is possible

 

[badkelpie]

I got all of mine as babies. Echo was the first, he was very little, but I didn't know you weren't supposed to buy the super tiny ones. Aside from regurgitating his first mealworm (I got smaller ones after that), he had no problems. Clementine and Freddie were each a couple months old, and I have had no problems with them either.

Pixel is the newest. She had a rough start at the pet store where she got stuck inside a decoration (not literally stuck, but she couldn't find her way out, they broke the decoration a couple days later and freed her). She had to have lost weight, somehow, because I bought her 2 weeks later and the people at the pet store said she'd grown a lot since the decoration incident. When I got her home, she was only 3 grams!:yikes:

I had to feed her very small crickets and mealworms, but she was spunky and had a great appetite. She's doing awesome now, eating the full size mealworms and bigger-than-hatchling dubias. Last time I weighed her she was 14 grams.

What I have learned is, babies are really not very fragile. More jumpy at first, but they mellow.

 

[Schmidty]

I got all of mine as babies. Echo was the first, he was very little, but I didn't know you weren't supposed to buy the super tiny ones. Aside from regurgitating his first mealworm (I got smaller ones after that), he had no problems. Clementine and Freddie were each a couple months old, and I have had no problems with them either.

Pixel is the newest. She had a rough start at the pet store where she got stuck inside a decoration (not literally stuck, but she couldn't find her way out, they broke the decoration a couple days later and freed her). She had to have lost weight, .....

Thats great! That makes me so happy to hear. Yeah, I hear alot that your not supposed to buy hatchlings, but hearing that youve had good experiences with them, that makes me feel a lot better getting mine, especially since one is a rescue.

 

[NicKtheGreeK1997]

They are sensitive to the low amount of calcium. They need a lot of it, so make sure you have 2:0 calcium in their tanks at all times (or dust in every feeding), as leopard geckos can't suffer from hypercalcemia. The need of calcium gets lower by the time.