Regarding #9. “Vitamins and calcium?” I have a question about this. I have Herptivite. It has calcium in it; do I need a separate calcium supplement?

Also, He is pretty small (about the size of an egg?). How much should he be eating? When I bought him they said he was eating 3 large crickets a day. But then again, they weren't very knowledgeable. When I asked about feeding him fish when he's larger they looked at me funny. Another pet store told me not to feed vitamins or calcium, JUST crickets, which of course I totally ignored.

Also, I CAN NOT get him to eat when I'm near the tank. I tried separating him and putting him on moist paper towels with the crickets, and I tried feeding him with Pincers and he out right refuses every single time. I worry that he's not getting the vitamins because by the time he eats the crickets they probably don’t have much vitamin left on them.

So far I have never seen him in the water dish, but he only burrows around it and I've never seen him use the other 50% of his enclosure. Would it be ok to use temporarily block off the other half to make him feel more secure? I have a nice size critter keeper (5-8gal), but it's very hard to maintain the moisture in it. It's too dry with the original lid, and too moist with the modified lid. Also, it doesn’t have a locking lid and it has proven hard to keep my daughter OUT of it.

Also, I have to avoid the use of a heat lamp of any type because of the hazards they pose for my three year old. That is why I purchased the thermostat heat regulator for the heating pad. I purchased the reptitherm 8” X 18” UTH (to be used on the side of the tank) and the Hydrofarm MTPRTC Digital Thermostat For Heat Mats. The pad and regulator should arrive in the next two days.