First hatchling
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Geopard Lecko
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Thats Awesome! Congrats! What are the genetics if I may ask?
my local petsmart and petco have small meal worms which from what i've seen look to be about the right size for hatchlings. As long as they can catch the food and easily swollow it I dont see a problem. Are you able to get small crickets or dubia roaches?
my local petsmart and petco have small meal worms which from what i've seen look to be about the right size for hatchlings. As long as they can catch the food and easily swollow it I dont see a problem. Are you able to get small crickets or dubia roaches?
Well I have a bell albino and I’m not a 100% on the female, I want to say Mack snow but I have seen so many different types, I’ll attach a pic of them both and maybe I could get some help on the genetics? As for the crickets I’m trying to keep away as I’m not a fan of them and the GF kicks off lol
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Geopard Lecko
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Nice lookin geckos!
Banded crickets smell less, live longer and are quieter then alot of other breeds of crickets. Unfortunately they are freakin escape artists! but me and my daughters have been learning ways around letting them escape.
Also mealworms arent exactly the greatest staple food, if not crickets maybe some dubia roaches?
Keep in mind hatchling to 6~ months old need to eat daily.
Banded crickets smell less, live longer and are quieter then alot of other breeds of crickets. Unfortunately they are freakin escape artists! but me and my daughters have been learning ways around letting them escape.
Also mealworms arent exactly the greatest staple food, if not crickets maybe some dubia roaches?
Keep in mind hatchling to 6~ months old need to eat daily.
Yes that’s my only fear losing them, didn’t go down well in the past and won’t now �� what size roaches? I can get them just not sure on what size, also, do you have an idea what the genetic of the baby would be or how I can find out?
Geopard Lecko
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I would start with small roaches for hatchlings, general rule of thumb is to not feed them anything bigger than the spacing between their eyes. roughly anyways, with meal worms they can prob be a little longer then that spacing cause their so small, but roaches an crickets i'd try to stay within that area.
Geopard Lecko
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he looks black and white? So possibly some kind of snow het for bell albino. very cute I cant wait to have some of my own little ones.
let us know how it goes on feeding
let us know how it goes on feeding
he looks black and white? So possibly some kind of snow het for bell albino. very cute I cant wait to have some of my own little ones.
let us know how it goes on feeding
Yeah I will do!
SpottedDragon
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A little late for this hatch, but have you considered raising your own mealworms and/or dubia?
I raise literally thousands of mealworms for cheap (I use pro gut load for the geckos' supply of worms, oats for the rest of the colony since chickens don't need to worry about calcium/phosphorous ratios). That way I have all sizes from barley large enough to see (small enough that I can feed them to my betta fish) to giant. Once you have beetles to lay eggs it takes about 7-30 days for the eggs to hatch, then 1-2 months for them to get large enough to be of use, 3-5 months to reach 'large' stage, and 5 to 7 months to be 'giant', after which they pupate and become beetles. (This is a much faster process in warmer temperatures)
I've not tried raising dubia but I'm sure it would work the same since you'd have all life stages. I'm not sure how small the nymphs are though. Good luck with your hatchlings
I raise literally thousands of mealworms for cheap (I use pro gut load for the geckos' supply of worms, oats for the rest of the colony since chickens don't need to worry about calcium/phosphorous ratios). That way I have all sizes from barley large enough to see (small enough that I can feed them to my betta fish) to giant. Once you have beetles to lay eggs it takes about 7-30 days for the eggs to hatch, then 1-2 months for them to get large enough to be of use, 3-5 months to reach 'large' stage, and 5 to 7 months to be 'giant', after which they pupate and become beetles. (This is a much faster process in warmer temperatures)
I've not tried raising dubia but I'm sure it would work the same since you'd have all life stages. I'm not sure how small the nymphs are though. Good luck with your hatchlings
A little late for this hatch, but have you considered raising your own mealworms and/or dubia?
I raise literally thousands of mealworms for cheap (I use pro gut load for the geckos' supply of worms, oats for the rest of the colony since chickens don't need to worry about calcium/phosphorous ratios). That way I have all sizes from barley large enough to see (small enough that I can feed them to my betta fish) to giant. Once you have beetles to lay eggs it takes about 7-30 days for the eggs to hatch, then 1-2 months for them to get large enough to be of use, 3-5 months to reach 'large' stage, and 5 to 7 months to be 'giant', after which they pupate and become beetles. (This is a much faster process in warmer temperatures)
I've not tried raising dubia but I'm sure it would work the same since you'd have all life stages. I'm not sure how small the nymphs are though. Good luck with your hatchlings
I did not really want to start producing my own worms and things even though i know it would be cheaper but i really do not have the space yet for this.
My baby gecko has started eating, she would not eat the food i put her area, so i seen a video online of hand feeding them, so i had a small cricket and pulled the head off, fed her the body and she seemed to enjoy it but only had the one, is this normal?
Also another question, as i dont have alot of space and will be selling the geckos once they are a little older, do you have an idea on how much i should put them up for? as i dont really know price wise what to say,
Geopard Lecko
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Without knowing the genetics for sure they usually dont sell for a lot, im probably going to sell many of mine as "pet only" for around 30-40$~ basically to just recoop what ive spent in raising them. And i think ill wait until their atleast 20 grams.
Ok cool thanks, so I started feeding her small tiny crickets, she won’t
Hunt them at all but I seen a video of hand feeding them and I did that
And she eats it but won’t chase them, should I continue to hand
Feed or not? I just didn’t want to leave small crickets in the tub
And for them to annoy her or get out?
Geopard Lecko
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I dont see a problem with hand feeding as long as they are eating.. Many people do it that way. We typically have to tong feed a couple of ours meal worms to get them interested in them but they hunt crickets fine.. (My adults, i dont have babies yet)
Glad you got the little one eating tho keep it up!
Glad you got the little one eating tho keep it up!
Ok cool thanks, I’ll continue to hand feed her, hopefully she gets bigger and
Starts to hunt them
Elizabeth Freer
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Geopard Lecko
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That is freaking AWESOME!! great work!
IHaveNoIdea
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Nice colors. Just an mack snow or wild type though. If you keep the hatchlings, raise them and then breed them together, you will produce some bell albinos. Those are more worth breeding.