Re: New hatchlings
MW, If I had undersized hatchlings I would keep them on damp paper towels inside a small container that was in a larger container such as a plastic sweater box. I would put the whole thing on top of a heating pad that had a couple of layers of towel on it. The heating pad would be kept on low. I personally don’t think that I would keep them on damp sand only because I wouldn’t want them to inadvertently ingest some sand at this small size. Once the yolk sacs were absorbed I would put them in a shoe box sized container on the towels and on the heating pad with about 1/2 inch of water. I would start feeding blood worms and in a week or so I would start adding the small fry sized Lion head koi food pellets. It has cuttle fish in it and all of my babies love it. After a couple of weeks of that I would then start adding larger sized pellet food or baby Reptomin. I would add a chunk of a small bird calcium block as soon as I put them in water. I would think they would be needing calcium. I also put a small spot light over a half brick (split brick) that I use as a basking spot. The heat from the spot and heating pad under them should boost their activity level and appetite. They should grow pretty fast. Take a look in our egroup files at my folder ‘Vickie’s group’ and look at the 4some picture. These babies were not quite 4 months old here and you can see how much they have grown. What kind of DBTs are your babies? Good luck with them…. Vickie