4 month old Female Veiled feeding questions

[JlaPinska]

So i actually own a 3 year old male veiled so i'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to keeping and feeding an adult. I recently acquired a rescue and she's only 4 months old.

1. I am not familiar with keeping one this small
2. I am not sure how much i should be feeding/how often.


Someone somewhere told me not to feed her a lot because it will cause her to grow/lay eggs and it will shorten her lifespan. I do know the shortening of lifespan is true. But is that really a healthy thing to do?
But how much is too much? I have been giving her 5 feeders every other day. I switch between hornworms, superworms, crickets & dubias, and i do all the dusting the same schedule as my older cham.
Vit with d3 every 2 weeks and multivit without d3 every 2 weeks. Calcium on all other feedings. Am i feeding her enough? She can put down a lot, like 5 superworms if i let her. My older cham eats spring mix as well and today i'm going to introduce it to the baby cham for the first time.


I uploaded a few pics so you could get an idea of her size. she came to me a bit skinny, can see her leg bones. i don't want to cut back how much i'm feeding her cause she needs to gain some weight in my opinion. but advice and suggestions are welcome, i want to do whats best for her.

 

[Melodie21]

So i actually own a 3 year old male veiled so i'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to keeping and feeding an adult. I recently acquired a rescue and she's only 4 months old.

1. I am not familiar with keeping one this small
2. I am not sure how much i should be feeding/how often.


Someone somewhere told me not to feed her a lot because it will cause her to grow/lay eggs and it will shorten her lifespan. I do know the shortening of lifespan is true. But is that really a healthy thing to do?
But how much is too much? I have been giving her 5 feeders every other day. I switch between hornworms, superworms, crickets & dubias, and i do all the dusting the same schedule as my older cham.
Vit with d3 every 2 weeks and multivit without d3 every 2 weeks. Calcium on all other feedings. Am i feeding her enough? She can put down a lot, like 5 superworms if i let her. My older cham eats spring mix as well and today i'm going to introduce it to the baby cham for the first time.


I uploaded a few pics so you could get an idea of her size. she came to me a bit skinny, can see her leg bones. i don't want to cut back how much i'm feeding her cause she needs to gain some weight in my opinion. but advice and suggestions are welcome, i want to do whats best for her.

Aww shes so beautiful what does your baby cham look like

 

[kinyonga]

You can feed her enough that she is growing but not obviously fat until she reaches sexual maturity...then be careful of the diet.

 

[jannb]

I recommend a fecal just to make sure she doesn’t have parasites.

I weigh my guys every week and I notice the weeks that I feed worms everybody’s weight is up.
I recommend hornworms, silkworms and superworms along with crickets and other feeders.