Reptile & Amphibian Forums

I just hatched 3 leopards about a week ago and have all 3 of them housed in a sweater box with paper towel substrate that they love to hide under. One is eating like a pig (im feeding them waxworms and the occasional silkworm) another one is feeding well but its kind of off and on but over all well but the last one (which by the way was the last one to hatch) I havent seen eat in the cage. He does eat though when I put him in a deli cup by himself. Should I not be housing them all together or is it alright for me to just remove the 3rd one to feed him? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Josh

I would suggest you take the that one out and housed him/her separately from the other two. Usually the bigger & stronger hatchlings will intimate the weaker ones for food.

Are you feeding them just waxworms with the occasional silkies? That's not a healthy diet for leos since waxworms are very high in fat and not much nutritional value, kind of like junk food for human. Silkworms are a good staple diet if they will eat it, very high in calcium. Or you can feed them mealworms or crickets. Waxworms should be treated as treats or an after dinner dessert once or twice a week at most since they are adicting.

you would do better to house them seperately. even though they're all babys, the first two to be born may be larger than the third. This will stress out or inhibit the smaller one. Also, as babys, they might want to eat one anothers tails thinking its food and now you have an animal with a regrow. They will be okay but the regrow nefer looks as good as the original tail.

As for the wax worms. They are VERY high in fat and very adicting. You would do better to feed gut loaded small meal worms (1/2 inch to 3/4 inch) or gut loaded small crickets. Be sure to shake and bake them first with calcium powder as the babys need their vitamins to grow 'strong bones and teeth'.

Do you have aby pics of your babys?

Hope this helps,

JJay
-----
JJay
3.5.2 Leos
(& 9 eggs cooking)
0.1 Map turtle

you really should be feeding your baby leos well gutloaded, small mealies and/or crickets. waxies are very fatty and are not as healthy as crickets or mealies. your babies may be gaining weight, but they will soon become malnourished. as for the babies not eating, remove the third baby to his/her own container because it seems as if s/he is intimidated by the other two leos.

cleo
1:2 leos (Phoenix, Beanie, Pixie)
3 eggs cooking