CLMoss said:I just can't believe how cute they are! I was a bit worried when I first got Becky regarding how young she was. But she is doing so well! She recently had a growth spurt of 8 grams in 10 days! She loves to eat! About the paper towels, this is what Larry G. explained to me and is on his culture sheet. I wet it down with water in the morning and he fells that it provides them with good footing. I guess that it is cleaner for them when they are such young hatchlings. Regarding the mazuri... I only give Becky maybe one moist cube a week as a treat. Most of her diet is green leafy organic stuff with her vits everyday. The red marks on both hatchlings is to id them. The one on Becky (larger female) in to id who the mother was and I believe her sex. With River I guess the same. The fighting for the one corner started right away. Today I saw River (the little male) try to give Becky a nip on her nose and then try to get her arm... I am not sure if this is something that I should be concerned about???
Mine does the same. When we do catch them we talk to them sternly. We hope this does them some good. Although we realise that they wouldn't understand what we're trying to say.. or what we're doing.
They're just protecting their space, after all they are individual creatures and are not used to sharing.
I find that you will just need to provide them with sufficient hideouts/enclosures as babies love to hide. If you have enough hideouts they will find a spot they love most. If not they will try to find a corner and hide as best as they can then they won't have to fight it out with each other.
I read somewhere that star hatchlings hide most of the time as their instincts tell them to keep safe from harm. This seems to be pretty true as our stars find all opportunity to hide. if we don't keep an eye on them when we put them in the yard.. we'd have a hard time locating them as they tend to hide in crevices between pots or under shoes.. or even under a leaf! (which completely hides them).
Perhaps this will prevent them from fighting. Also make sure that you provide enough food for them so that they won't fight over that!