By the way, where do you all get the calcium to put on the mealies ar??

i use my gli-cal...

Ic.. Do you sprinkle the calcium on other hedgie food??? Or just the mealworm??

i don really sprinkle everytime..as overdoes calcium may lead to other prob too...

Jus feed ur mealies with choysum would do...

other supplement ah..got ah..LC-Vit..mix in water let them drink...all my pets also got use LC-Vit...helps in reduce stress, increase appetite and strengthen their antibodi..

can anyone tell me wat color is my hedgehog??




This post has been edited by miecca: Aug 2 2009, 07:45 AM

I would say that it is snowflake, same as the one Eric have.

actually, it looks more like champagne. it's different from eric's, although it may also be a snowflake but it's hard to see unless there's a close-up photo of the quills.

snowflake is not a colour, it's considered a derivation from the standard colours. we call them snowflakes when the number of white quills is high in percentage. snowflakes occur in every colour.

and while we're talking colours, the hedgehogs we find locally are mostly algerians, S&P is a common term for hedgehogs we see here, but we can also term them with colours between algerian dark grey, grey and chocolate, although it's a bit hard to categorize since there aren't any experts around.

i also agreed that is champagne color.

As livingmonolith said, snowflake is not a particular color... it's a one of the color category. The differences of snowflake with others is snowflake hedgie quills are mixture of banded and non banded. The others mostly are non-banded and only abit are banded

My Kenken shud be falls in snowflake color category, and his color is chocolate snowflakes..

thanks all for the answers...

i'm not good with categorizing colours...
i have 4 colours before, i know it's different but i dunno which is which...
anyway, urs look like my cinnamon, but as the pic is a bit washed out...maybe i'm wrong
check with hedgehog central, tons of colour variation for hedgehogs
cheers!!

Hmm eric, if my BoChai eat more mealworm by now, so how should the limit will be per day for the mealworm?
RC totally no like to eat by now. And my BoChai 1 time eat around 10~20 event 30 per meal, now shouldbe 2 meal.

Dr Jenny encourage that eat more insect more than RC, so any suggestion for that ?

ya i go yesterday also encourage to give more insect like grasshoppper or cricket more than RC coz she said RC like maggi... if we eat everyday, sure 1 day kena disease like cancer, batu karang n many2 else...

U can feed other insects such as crickets and so...But we cant get live homebred grasshopper here in malaysia.

Or u can get urself Bugsy Small Carnivore Food and feed to them. Much better than feeding mealworms.

Ya, agree with you all. Maybe it's champagne colour, but shouldn't champagne have red eyes. From the picture, it's more like black colour eyes.


p/s: We should have picture taken of all our hedgie and then try to categorize the colour. It's actually interesting to study the colour of hedgie in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by mic_tcs: Aug 2 2009, 07:22 PM

I think you mistake Champagne with Albino color
Albino always or mostly with red eyes while Champagne is more to the brown color eyes.. and the picture that given earlier is Champagne color.. quite hard to get it nowadays.. 1 out of many colors that I want to have

I got links that can help to guide pokimon's color as it was belong to a breeder and not to complicated like hedgehog central links http://hedgehogsbyvickie.com/hedgehogcolors.htm

Damn I want platinum!

Eric, what is that " Bugsy Small Carnivore Food " ? Is it those small can food ?

Actually not only albino have red eyes, other type also got red eyes.
And about the link that you sent., it stated that:

"The eye color is a rich RUBY RED" -- this is under Champagne category.

What I mean is the eyes should be red or ruby red.

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Added on August 2, 2009, 9:57 pmAbout the Bugsy Small Carnivore Food, you can get it here...

http://www.petshack.com.my/webshaper/store...ProductItem=769

This post has been edited by mic_tcs: Aug 2 2009, 09:59 PM

Bugsy Small Carnivore Food is a good insect source for insects eater. In, malaysia we often give mealworms or cricket to our pets..but this is not really balanced in nutritional wise.

They need variety of insects in different stages (larval, insects, pupa) in order to fulfill their needs for insects nutritional value.

Bugsy Small Carnivore Food is in powder form, is actually blended of all kind of insects. Jus mix bit water and serve.. I make it like meatball then serve to kenken.

I see, thank you mic_tcs and eric, I don't know about this thing.....
Hmm if feed for hedgehog, how much should I take to serve for my Bo Chai?
Hmm maybe faster go grab it... but also scare Bo Chai won't eat .... T_T

You nid to intro every single new food to hedgie..they are really picky in eating..

U can serve mayb 30% of his diet...

If he refuse to eat, u smash all his favorite RC kibbles then mix bit of the carnivore food inside..

Day by day u increase the carnivore food gradually... Then he can slowly pick up and eat...