Vegas_Eric
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Well, we have had our babies for just about a month now to the day and they are showing really good growth rate. I picked them up at the Las Vegas Reptile Show and at the time they were 12g (female) & 14g (male). These are the smallest Leo's me and my boys have ever owned and I am really proud because they are very healthy and both of them are just about at 25 grams now. One is 24.6g and the female is 23.9g. They have doubled their weight in the short time we have owned them.
We first started them on small meal worms which they devoured every day. They both would eat between 10 and 15 small mealies a day. about 2 weeks after I got them I threw some small crickets into their tubs and they stalk and ate them. You can tell that the crickets were a more substantial meal since they could only eat two or three and they were done for the night. Stuffed like fat little reptile turkeys.
Just last night I gave them each (they are both in seperate tubs) two small half inch lobster roach nymphs and they eagerly stalked and hunted them down and devoured them. I tried to offer them another and they just would have no part of that. They were stuffed as these lobster roach nymps were bigger then the small crickets I have been feeding them.
Just a little tip from me and the boys that we discovered along the way about feeding your reptiles lobster roaches. Just about everyone is worried about lobster roaches crawling up the sides of the leo's tubs and escaping, and for this reason they shy away from them.
It's true, they can climb just about anything. Fortunately our tubs have lids and we drilled smaller holes in their enclosures that not even the half inch nymphs can escape from but still offer the leo's enclosures adequate ventilation.
The tip we want to pass on to you will help your Leo's catch the lobster roaches since they are quicker then crickets and prevent them from crawling up the sides of your enclosures.
No, were not going to tell you to turn them on their backs and use scissors to cut the lobster roaches tiny little feet off, even though this thought has crossed my mind many times. We discovered this new method completely by accident.
When taking our lobster roaches out of their bins we have been throwing them into tall plastic deli cups and then walking over to our racks and dropping them into the leo's enclosures. Well if your not quick, the lobster roaches will crawl up the side of the plastic cup and escape. So you get real good and throwing them in and then capping them shut. The more lobsters you throw in though, specially if you catch them one at a time, the harder this gets.
So I put in some calcium D3 and dusted them in the cups, they could still climb the sides and escape.
When I ran of D3 calcium I purchased some repashy calcium and noticed that when we dusted the roaches with it, they could no longer climb the sides of the plastic cups, nor can then climb the sides of the plastic sterlite tubs that we use.
There is something in Repashy that coats their feet and prevents them from crawling up the sides of the enclosures. At least for an hour or so... Just make sure your feeding them to hungry leo's and you wont have to worry about them every getting out because they wont have an hour or so to ever get that chance once your leo puts a stalk on them.
Good luck,
Eric and the twins
We first started them on small meal worms which they devoured every day. They both would eat between 10 and 15 small mealies a day. about 2 weeks after I got them I threw some small crickets into their tubs and they stalk and ate them. You can tell that the crickets were a more substantial meal since they could only eat two or three and they were done for the night. Stuffed like fat little reptile turkeys.
Just last night I gave them each (they are both in seperate tubs) two small half inch lobster roach nymphs and they eagerly stalked and hunted them down and devoured them. I tried to offer them another and they just would have no part of that. They were stuffed as these lobster roach nymps were bigger then the small crickets I have been feeding them.
Just a little tip from me and the boys that we discovered along the way about feeding your reptiles lobster roaches. Just about everyone is worried about lobster roaches crawling up the sides of the leo's tubs and escaping, and for this reason they shy away from them.
It's true, they can climb just about anything. Fortunately our tubs have lids and we drilled smaller holes in their enclosures that not even the half inch nymphs can escape from but still offer the leo's enclosures adequate ventilation.
The tip we want to pass on to you will help your Leo's catch the lobster roaches since they are quicker then crickets and prevent them from crawling up the sides of your enclosures.
No, were not going to tell you to turn them on their backs and use scissors to cut the lobster roaches tiny little feet off, even though this thought has crossed my mind many times. We discovered this new method completely by accident.
When taking our lobster roaches out of their bins we have been throwing them into tall plastic deli cups and then walking over to our racks and dropping them into the leo's enclosures. Well if your not quick, the lobster roaches will crawl up the side of the plastic cup and escape. So you get real good and throwing them in and then capping them shut. The more lobsters you throw in though, specially if you catch them one at a time, the harder this gets.
So I put in some calcium D3 and dusted them in the cups, they could still climb the sides and escape.
When I ran of D3 calcium I purchased some repashy calcium and noticed that when we dusted the roaches with it, they could no longer climb the sides of the plastic cups, nor can then climb the sides of the plastic sterlite tubs that we use.
There is something in Repashy that coats their feet and prevents them from crawling up the sides of the enclosures. At least for an hour or so... Just make sure your feeding them to hungry leo's and you wont have to worry about them every getting out because they wont have an hour or so to ever get that chance once your leo puts a stalk on them.
Good luck,
Eric and the twins
