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I caught a gravid female Southern Gator earlier this year. She laid sixteen eggs, of which nine just hatched out. They are the cutest little buggers in the world. My question though, because I've never kept babies before, is what should I feed them, how often, supplements, etc. Otherwise I may just let em go where I found the mom.

I have never had notherns, but I do have Texas gators. They need to be fed pinhead crickets. I use crushed one-a-day vitamins as a suppliment. They need a small water dish and one side of the cage that it moist (not wet). They should do fine. One of my gators will be laying her eggs next year so I wil be where you are. Good luck!

Dave

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Pinhead crickets is the easy solution, baby meal worms if you can find them. They also like spiders -- I use to throw an old bunched up sheet out in the yard. The next day shake it out on a driveway, and harvest the spiders that made refuge in it overnight.