Place the crickets in a shallow bowl, this way you can remove uneaten crickets easier and they can't get under the paper towel. Pinhead crickets are not great jumpers so not many if any will get out of the bowl before being eaten. It may also be a good idea to use several bowls so the babies don't compete as much for food.

You need a basking temperature of at least 100F for babies...so place a couple wide stones, bricks, store bought logs etc. to serve as a basking site for the dragons. Make sure there is plenty of room for all the dragons to bask, without having to 'stack' ontop of each other (having a dragon on your back reduced exposure of heat and UVB light, so the bottom dragon is being robbed of these if a dragon sits ontop of it).

Also, make sure there is a cooler area of the cage the dragons can move to, you don't want the entire cage to be 90F, surface or air.

Another note, the babies may not eat for a few days now that they are hatched, as they are full of the yolk they absorbed. So don't be worried if they don't eat at all for the next couple days.
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