Question about how soon to feed. Do you feed the hatchlings immediately as they come out of the egg? Or do you wait until they've lost/consumed the yolk sac? I've heard varying opinions.
Thanks
They nibble as soon as they stick their head out of the shell. Even when they have a large yolk sac. This is why I won't use perlite for incubation. If they ingest perlite, it can literally kill them or greatly hamper their ability to thrive.
Within a day or two of leaving their egg, they begin to nibble. After 3-4 days they are eating. After a week, I have to put a pretty large pile of food in my brooder boxes with multiple babies and they eat it all up. This is why I will only use the damp paper towels for a day or two. They nibble on everything that is in the brooder box, so I make everything edible with grape leaves of plant ago as the "substrate".