Raising hatchlings: I buy cheap 6qt tubs from Target (or equivalent). They cost about $1 each. Each tub gets a a half sheet of paper towel as "substrate", a coconut shell or other type of hide, a piece of cork bark leaning on the hide so there's a place to "climb", a small jar lid of water and a bottle cap of CGD. I mist every night and change the paper towel when it starts to look dirty. For the young ones, I stick their noses in the CGD at first to give them the idea. Periodically I put 1 or 2 crickets in after they've grown a bit. Needless to say, there is one hatchling in each tub. The tubs stack and don't need air holes (there's enough air exchange without them and that way you can hold the humidity better).
Putting them together: Some people keep all their gargs individually no matter what. I keep my adults in a 1.2 group though I watch them carefully and have had to separate one of the females for a few months on occasion. You just have to use your judgement about whether to do it at all and when to do it, though I would imagine that they may be too hungry before they become older juvies to keep them together. I have heard people say that males kept together from the time they are hatchlings who never see or smell a female can do alright together but I would never want to test that theory.
Aliza
