News of the Nursery

Well, since the hatching of our little blind Delta and her twin sister, Echo, we've had two more babies hatch.  Welcome to the family, Foxtrot and Gamma!  We now have the two adults, two juveniles, and five infants with only two eggs to go for this season.  So far we've lost about four eggs, which is sad, but all in all I'd say it's still been a pretty successful run.

Also, since we decided to change from paper towel to sand in the nursery the babies seem to have stopped eating as regularely.  We're not sure if it's the sand, or the fact that we chose black sand (which we later found out can throw them off a little), so we've decided to change their bedding again.  This time they've got reptile carpet.  Not as easy to maintain as sand or paper towel, but healthier than sand and cheaper than paper towel in the long run.  It's also the most often recommended substrate so it seemed like a decent choice.

There are three babies chillin in that little cave, getting used to their new carpet and recovering after the somewhat stressful experience of being moved from the tank to a bucket and back again.

We've started feeding Delta on a regimine of water with diluted vitamin powder from an eye-dropper, as well as organic mixed vegetable baby food.  Here she is licking some baby food off the tip of John's finger.  She's such a sweet little thing, and her twin sister is already twice her size (she may be a dwarf and not ever grow to full size)... As a result she has fast become my favourite of the baby geckos.  Aint it always the way?

~J