diet for hatchling pygmies

[ange loves chams]

So i have three 5 day old pygmies. I've been feeding them fruit flies since they hatched and my pinheads arrived in today. I was wondering roughly how many crickets should i be giving them a day and fruit flies as well?
I dont know if any of you read my one post a few days ago about the pygmy with the broken leg but... the little runt of my pygmies had a nasty fall into his food cup a few days ago thank God i found him ad helped him out. But he deffinatly did some damage to his leg. For the 1st day or two his leg was realllly black and super swollen. I moved him to his own smaller very short not as tall enclosure with low laying leaves. And very very good news and progress with him, he is now loving his leg a lot more (bending it) and the swelling has decreased a bit and its not black anymore. And the little dude is eating like a champ so dispite my very bleek out look on the situation, it looks as if he's going to make it after all! <3

So i guess what i need to know here is approx how many crickets and fruit flies should i put in the enclosure for the TWO pygmies and how many should i be putting in the enclosure for tiny time as I now call him

 

[PedroANDAshley]

I cant help with the diet info but thats great news about your babys leg

 

[ange loves chams]

Thank you very much and thank you for the advice. I think it was you telling me to put him in his own enclosure. Since i have he's been looking better day by day Moving it alot more but he deffinatly does not have the capability to use it yet its still pretty swollen but hes moving around a lot more i noticed today. So i wanted to thank you for the advice. Only sad thing is his siblings just stare at him from the other cage and try to get to him just scratching at the window closest to him its so heart breaking they miss him! And it's so sad, what ever the other baby chams are doing tiny tim wants to imitate them. They'll be climbing on the bottom and he gets off his leaf and crawls on the bottom they'll try climbing up the side of the cage just slipping off the glass in a failed attempt and he has to do the same its so heart breaking lol i can't believe how influencial they are to one another!

 

[PedroANDAshley]

Omg thats so sad
but at the same time kinda cute that they copy each other
Ive only seen pygmies once in real life and they are seriously the cutest little things <3

 

[ange loves chams]

Their so adorable they facinate me. I just want to stare at them all day. But i end up creeping them out lol

 

[PedroANDAshley]

I think we all creep our chams out LOL

 

[Monties1982]

I would say to give them one type of feeder each day and rotate to a different feeder each day so you know they're getting a varied diet, and to give them as much as they want to eat since they're growing babies. I'm not really an expert on the subject, though, so if anyone thinks differently, please say so.

 

[nick barta]

The key is to have the chams in a small area where the food can't get away, perhaps feed them in a plastic container with a couple of branches.

Dump 5-10 pins in and see if they eat them all in 15 minutes or less. If they do, add more until they are not eating any more. This will give you a base line on the number of feeders.

Give them a couple of hours and see if they will eat again, if so, do the same process, if not, try again in 2 hours or so.

If all this seems like too much time, dump a bunch in and keep the buffet going continuously while they are young and growing.

Nick

 

[VeiledOwner87]

The key is to have the chams in a small area where the food can't get away, perhaps feed them in a plastic container with a couple of branches.

Dump 5-10 pins in and see if they eat them all in 15 minutes or less. If they do, add more until they are not eating any more. This will give you a base line on the number of feeders.

Give them a couple of hours and see if they will eat again, if so, do the same process, if not, try again in 2 hours or so.

If all this seems like too much time, dump a bunch in and keep the buffet going continuously while they are young and growing.

Nick

feeding them "as much as they can eat" has never been explained better, thank you nick. i believe you deserve some rep points