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I know to try worms but what else can I try. Last year my friend lost his clucth of hatchlings as none ate. This year the adults bred late but obviously, females, may still lay. My question is what food itmes can we try once more hatch?

My hatchling goes nuts for tiny crickets. He chases them all over his enclosure like a maniac. He also ate small mealworms pretty well.

If you can find blackworms at a tropical fish store, they're about the best thing I've ever found to get hatchlings started eating. Drop a wiggly glob in front of their noses and they can't resist. I have 7 hatchlings chowing on them right now. Mine are also eating finely chopped peaches, strawberries, cantaloupe and moistened Reptomin. Spread it around their enclosure though, don't just put the food in a dish and expect them to find it at first. Mine much prefer eating back inside their log hide.

I'm wondering how you keep your hatchlings. Mine stays buried in Sphagnum almost all the time, so I don't even bother puttinf food around him/her. I dig him out and place him in a can with wax worms when I feed him almost solely wax worms.