Well, I am glad to be back. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. All the babies were very hungry when I got back. Only one died while I was gone for 6 days. Of course I went straight to the pet shop to get 50 small crickets and to pick up my parrot from boarding. Because they hadn't eaten in six days, many of the babies actually attacked and killed the crickets I gave them. If you remember, none of my babies would kill their prey, but because a couple of people that got babies from me said that theirs would kill their crickets, I figured I  would try to feed live prey to mine this time as they should have been hungry. I an guessing that mine don't like to kill their prey because I feed them every other day. Perhaps because they are so well fed, they just don't feel the urge to kill. I haven't asked the others how often they feed their babies, but ,obviously, if they are hungry they will do whatever it takes to eat. At least one of them was still willing to kill its prey the day after I got home as well. Since today is Wednesday - day 3 since I have been back, I haven't fed any of them...a day of rest and relaxation for all. Ciao.