My hatchlings are PIGS.

[Chewbecca]

I mean, not LITERALLY, but they sure eat like it's the first meal they've had in YEARS.:main_laugh:

I like to feed them daily...because they DEVOUR their food almost as soon as it gets into their enclosures.

I give them 5-10 small-medium supers and by the time I have gone down the line for all 12, the first row is completely DONE with their worms.
And they're all looking at me like, "Is that IT?"

I sometimes feed them more if I have more to give them. I have just received 1,000 medium supers tonight. These medium supers are a NICE size, and they all ate at least 5 a piece tonight.

And don't get me started on the amount of roaches and mealies they can go through.

I HAD TO resort to giving them sub adult roaches last night. I didn't want to but I had completely run out of feeders, and they've CLEARED us of nymphs (and I have an active roach colony). I watched them and was ready with my feeder tweezers to assist if I needed to.
Out of 8 that got sub adult roaches, only one was unsuccessful in eating it, and he simply just gave up.

It was mess in their enclosures. There were roach legs laying on the ground, gut splatters on the sides of their enclosures.

They ate them and wanted MORE.

Don't get me wrong, I am ECSTATIC that they are all seemingly VERY healthy, but good GOD.
They're little piggies!:main_laugh:
Oh, these hatchlings were all hatched in June and July. I don't know current weights, and I am hoping to weigh them tomorrow.

Who else finds that their hatchlings are pigs when it comes to food???

 

[acpart]

Last week I went away for a night, so the babies didn't get fed. When I came back, every baby I could see in a glass enclosure was at the front of the tank waiting with empty food bowls. I breed mealworms, but they're way ahead of me. I ordered 5000 mealworms and they lasted 2 weeks! I have 53 hatchlings, all but 8 of which are leos. Last year, my best year before this one, I hatched 41 the whole season. This is getting ridiculous.

ALiza

 

[Chewbecca]

hahahaha!
My babies eat WAY more than my adults do!!!

I spend more time feeding 12 hatchlings than I do feeding ANY of my other geckos.

Mine do what yours do. By the time I've made my way down the line and have fed the last hatchling, I've got the first row at the front of their enclosure staring at me.

And OF COURSE I cannot resist that baby face practically BEGGING me for more food, so then I make a SECOND round.
I think I might have made 3 rounds tonight, but as soon as I got done with the last hatchling (for the third time), I simply looked away and refused to look at the pleading food faces anymore.

 

[ajveachster]

We don't have as many babies, but the ones we have are also pigs. We give them full bowls of mealies, which we pretty much have to refill every day. Then they get crickets each night. They seem insatiable. The adults get one super each. The sub adults get a super and some crickets every day. We have definitely noticed a trend with how much more food the younger ones need, and how that need for food declines with age.

 

[Kristi23]

All my babies are huge eaters, too. I have no idea where a tiny hatchling puts 8 mealworms. It kills me! Most of mine eat about 12 mealworms a night, but some will easily eat 20 (good size ones).