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I am gathering some data on a clutch of 23 baby Florida Oranges and thought I would share. They are being fed a diet of only roaches dusted with ICB. they are all housed together with no UV light but get a minimum of 1 hour of sunlight every day.
heres what I have so far:
23 babies hatch 6-13-04
67 grams @2 days 6-15-04=2.9g ea
81 grams @7 days 6-20-04=3.5g ea 20%
88 grams @10 days 6-23-04=3.8g ea 31% 4.6" average length
98 grams @12 days 6-25-04=4.3g ea 46%
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Bennett
Hey, thanks for posting. What king of roaches do you use for the hatchlings?
Here are the stats on my first clutch this season. They are fed silkworms, crickets, and lobster roaches. They also get a salad of greens with 15 ingredients that I rotate, but collards, turnip, mustard, endive, papaya, mango, and squash daily. They also get RepCal Pellets.
They get everything dusted with RepCal w/D3. Herptivite twice a week.
No UVB, but sunlight 1-2 hours daily (missed a few days so far because we have had awful weather.)
They are housed in groups of 5-6, but they go outside in the same large enclosure.
I have to link to the stats because Kingsnake will not keep formatting in the post:
www.faliastx.com/img/hatch_table.htm
Here is a picture of them around day 20 with one of their newly hatched siblings!
Kakadu Dragons
i feed a variety of roaches including lobsters, hissers and death heads. They will start on rep cal pellets as well on sunday then greens the following week.
do you raise silkies? if you do how hard is it compared with lobsters?
Thanks for posting your #s too.
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Bennett
Yup, we raise silkies. It is...different. You have to be So careful evertime you go near them, wash hands, wash knife to cut their food then spray knife and hands with rubbing alcohol. We have lost several batches of them trying to get the routine worked out. It seems when they start dying, they ALL die.
We have the incubator, and the first 5-7 days is easy. You just put their food in and leave them. Then you are supposed to add more food, and when they move onto it take the old food out...Thing is a LOT of them don't move over within 24 hours, and then you are risking the old food going bad...so do you risk the extra contact with them to pick of the 1/4 of then that are on the old food, or do you leave the old food? The second feeding in the petri dishes is where we always have problems. If we get past that we are fine! I have to say it is a lot more STRESS then the roaches, but not really a lot of work. I think that messing with them too much is the main reason we lose them.
I really like the variety in the diet though, and so I am going to stick with them. I have had enough success to keep going with them, but if I was depending on them as the only food source...no way!
weighed 98 grams at 12 days when I first read that...... til i realized you were talking about a group weigh!
Sheesh I was ready to drive over and kidnap them!
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www.reptilerooms.com
LMAO, those would be from his radioactive mutant beardie that he posted a while back. 100 grams at 2 weeks, you'd be feeding them small children when they grew up lol
Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps
I havent weighed this one yet, Nemo and Snuggles kids grow fast.
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