Baby bonanza

The pitter patter of tiny feet can't really be heard, but they're there. So far nine eggs have hatched and we've only lost one baby. When I say 'lost' I mean exactly that. One just disappeared. We don't know if it escaped or if there's a tiny body buried under the coco-peat somewhere.

Four babies visible here, although one is hard to make out because it's out of focus.

It's a constant worry because of the poor run we've had with babies in the past. The best one we had was Houdini who, after a couple of months of getting on fine, sat up on the top of the enclosure one day and just stayed there till we gave it a poke a couple of days later. It was, by then, an ex-Houdini.

Changing over the leaves is getting more difficult, because we're carefully fishing each insect out and putting them in a holding cage and then having to swap them all back again.

The first few had names: Gumnut, Speedy. But now there's so many and they all look alike, so Ms Jaz has given up on the names for now.