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To properly care for the hatchlings, it will cost you at least $1000 - often more. You'll need enough bins to house the babies in groups of 5 or less. Considering the female can lay up to 7 clutches of eggs, approx 25 days apart, and each clutch can be as many as 35 or more eggs, this requires a LOT of bins. You'll need a few extras for babies that don't thrive well or become aggressive - those babies need to be completely separated from the others.
You'll need to provide heat and UVB for each group of babies. Each little one can eat anywhere from 30 to 100 insects a day. They need calcium and multivitamins too.
Unless your dragons are from high demand bloodlines/morphs, or have eye popping colors and great size, you won't sell them for more than about $30 to $50 each. In other words, you'll lose a good deal of money in the process that you won't recover in selling the little ones.
Also, from your previous posts, your dragons are related. That means your chances of having deformed or very weak babies is very high. It also means you're likely to have a high rate of eggs that don't hatch or babies that don't survive the hatchling stage.
Honestly, it's not something to do unless you're well prepared and able to spend most of your time at home caring for the hatchlings. They absolutely must be fed at least 3 times daily or they'll start eating parts of each other.
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