Thank you all so much for the advice. I am definitely going to get some night crawlers today and feed them to Charlie tonight. At feedings we are dusting with calciumd3 3 days and vitamins 1 day.
Cuacuayatl, The one morning I removed the poop from the enclosure it was in his empty burrow/hole he had been in the day before. He has since been in the same burrow for a couple days now. We are planning to change his substrate today, so I will soak him in the dechlorinated water while I hunt for poop hahaha!!
Grif, we are not using any daylight basking bulbs. The light and brightness you see in the picture was from the camera flash. The room was/is dimly lit at night so I can see for feeding, but I couldn't get a clear picture without the flash. Also we are not using uvb. According to the care sheet Charlie is too small yet to be moved to a 10 gallon, so right now we have him in a critter keeper. We don't have any bulbs or lights over the critter keeper, but his enclosure is next to a heat source. During the day his temps maintain at 83 degrees and at night cool to 78-79 degrees.
Lija, thank you!! I think Charlie looks awesome too, and I am so happy he is doing great. I was prepared for a bit of relocation stress, but he has acclimated so well for only being with us about one week. It's probably just me, but I think he's grown a tad too!!
-Kaleen





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