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fattiesnleos
at Wed Apr 18 15:05:30 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by fattiesnleos ]
very very cute babies but you need to take them off that sand imediatly. sand is very bad for geckos and even worse for babies! sand impacts their sromachs and they will die very slowly. i am assuming u r new to leopard geckos. so just to let you know it would be wisest to seppaerate your babies until they are grown up. you will end up with them bullying each other and they could die because of stress. they also will bite each others tails off. it is very important for a baby leopard geckos to have its tail while growing up because that is where they store their nutrients. so anyhow you need to make their homes have a warm spot of about 90 degrees and a cool end about room temperature. they should live on paper towels or any substrate that is not loose or that can be ingested. they need to be separated and feed everynight with calcium and vitamin suppliment dusted crickets. they also need a fresh water source at all times. you will need a himid hide, a hiding spot with moist paper towels or whatever in it so that they can shed properly. when a gecko cant shed properly shed gets stuck to the toes and they could fall off or it can get stuck in their eyes and lead to eye infections which can lead to blindness or death. calcium and vitamin supplements are very very important in raising young geckos with out this they will not grow and they can get (metabolic bone disease). that is when your bones become spagehti and it is not pretty, very very sad!! anyhow do some reading, ask questions in this forrum, do whatever you can to get more information becuase let me tell you from experience that it is very sad when you realize your geckos are dieing because you didnt feed or take care of them right and thought you knew what you were doing. i bought like 10 baies b4 i knew anyhting and they all slowly died, it was awful! luckily thats not the case anymore.
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