help with babies!!!
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stephen
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2-3 weeks is young if you purchased them.Any way i would recommend some small schifflera (sp.) ,or umbrella plants . ficus works as well but the umbrella plant really holds the water!! Mist the leaves with WARM unchlorinated water 3 to 4 times a day. If you do not see them drinking, they are still absorbing the water thru their skin. Careful on the temps for those babies. At that age they are very tempermental!!! What are they housed in and what are you feeding them?
Stephen
2-3 weeks is young if you purchased them.Any way i would recommend some small schifflera (sp.) ,or umbrella plants . ficus works as well but the umbrella plant really holds the water!! Mist the leaves with WARM unchlorinated water 3 to 4 times a day. If you do not see them drinking, they are still absorbing the water thru their skin. Careful on the temps for those babies. At that age they are very tempermental!!! What are they housed in and what are you feeding them?
Stephen
The best way is a very fine misting several times a day. They are likely drinking when you aren't watching them.
Make sure the insects are of an appropriate size (a size that will fit into the mouth fairly well). Make sure you dust the insects with a phos.-free calcium powder at most feedings and gutload them well.
I keep the temperature in the cage in the low to mid 80's at the most at that age.
Good luck!
Make sure the insects are of an appropriate size (a size that will fit into the mouth fairly well). Make sure you dust the insects with a phos.-free calcium powder at most feedings and gutload them well.
I keep the temperature in the cage in the low to mid 80's at the most at that age.
Good luck!
dindy
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they are in like a glass tank thats a foot long by half a foot wide and mabe a foot tall, the temps are around 78ish as i dont want to use heat on them cause there so small, i just have the uvb hood over the cage and i put a shirt over the top a little to keep in some humidity, im misting with warm water and im picking up more micros and flys tomorrow, i do have 7 other chams..panthers and veilds....i got them from a breeder friend for a good price.....he said he uses no heat source and the roomi have em all in is usually around 78ish so i figured that would be alright...i dont want to cook em.....i have been putting a 40 watt bulb a few inches above the cage a couple times a day for a little bit just to help with humidity and give em a bit of heat ...they look like they love it cause they stand up kinda towards the heat!!! any other help would be great!!!
Dean Pulcini
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You can lightly mist them while they are eating to insure that they are drinking. At that age they will often lick leaves or the sides of the enclosure and some times the water droplets that collect on the screening.
