First pair of Cresties - what's wrong?

[M3Man03]

Having concerns about my new cresties - got 2 REAL small babies (less than 2" long overall). They just seem to hide all day and not eat. I have small crickets, small mealworms and the Repashy crestie food in there for them. The enclosure has good vines and climbing areas, about 75-80 degrees and 50-70% humidity.

I have the Exo Terra Crested Gecko Terrarium kit which is more than ample space for them right now since they are so tiny.

Not sure what else to do. Suggestions?

 

[J&M UNE]

Let me start of by saying I'm no crestie expert as I have just got into them a few months back..we do have 28 of them right now and from what I have researched and my breeder friend that has help me get setup.. Babies can get lost very easy in big enclosure... I have most of mine either in kritter keepers or small tubs... At first I was putting one cap of food elevated and one on the ground until I started to see dropping regularly... They don't eat to much so sometimes I can't tell there is food missing but there will be fresh dropings..

this is what most of my small hatchlings are ing

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[J&M UNE]

I also feed pangea bannana apricot ( their favorite) and pangea watermelon.. We're did you get them from and what were they eating for their previous owner?

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[J&M UNE]

And if they are house together I would separate them so you can tell you is eating what and pooping

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[JessJohnson87]

The advice above is great and I also recommend housing them separately in either smaller tubs or kritter keepers with paper towel as the substrate. I would just try to feed them crickets, mealworms contain too much chitin for crestie's to digest properly. If they don't like bugs, Pangea makes a complete diet with insects, mine usually laps up half a bowl of that.

 

[ScottyP]

To add, crested geckos are mostly active after dark, you typically should not be able to find them during the day


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[J&M UNE]

Any updates on these two

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