NDevon
Active Member
Thanks for all that info Pearly. I just tried a hard boiled egg when I gave the babies their dinner, hey had a little nibble but were more interested in the apple - I haven't fed them apple before. I do try to keep it interesting, every meal they have at least 4 and as many as 8 different things, but I may get bored of being at creative, I only picked them up a week ago! I love to watch them eat, and they both eat well. I'm not sure how much to give them, how much they need to eat or can eat. What are the rules / guidelines?
At the moment I give them more than enough and feed them out of their vivarium or they tend to wander off to do anything else. Once they have eaten for a while I put them back in and some of the food goes on their piece of slate and stays in overnight. Next morning I throw out any food and put some greens in, come early evening I take he greens out, feed them as above, and so on. I don't intend to feed them out of the viv for long, just a bit paranoid right now, worried I'm going to kill them, and I feel better if I've seen them eat.
Foods they have had so far include egg (after tonight!), Apple, grape, cabbage, carrot, a pellet called mazuri that I soften in a little fruit juice, tomato, cress, mushroom, banana, strawberry, blueberry, chicken, dried cat biscuits (expensive ones full of good stuff apparantly) soaked in hot water, I think that's it. I know they need more 'greens', got to find more to give them.
They always have fresh water and there is a cuttlefish in the viv. I dust their greens with a teeny bit of calcium powder and a nutrient powder alternate days. Hopefully I'm not too far off with their diet, trying to get this right
At the moment I give them more than enough and feed them out of their vivarium or they tend to wander off to do anything else. Once they have eaten for a while I put them back in and some of the food goes on their piece of slate and stays in overnight. Next morning I throw out any food and put some greens in, come early evening I take he greens out, feed them as above, and so on. I don't intend to feed them out of the viv for long, just a bit paranoid right now, worried I'm going to kill them, and I feel better if I've seen them eat.
Foods they have had so far include egg (after tonight!), Apple, grape, cabbage, carrot, a pellet called mazuri that I soften in a little fruit juice, tomato, cress, mushroom, banana, strawberry, blueberry, chicken, dried cat biscuits (expensive ones full of good stuff apparantly) soaked in hot water, I think that's it. I know they need more 'greens', got to find more to give them.
They always have fresh water and there is a cuttlefish in the viv. I dust their greens with a teeny bit of calcium powder and a nutrient powder alternate days. Hopefully I'm not too far off with their diet, trying to get this right
