Well you probably need to keep an eye on their weight just to be safe. If they continue to be active as a normal hatchling should be, then hopefully they will work up an appetite as they use up their egg yolk! 
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yeah hopefully that will be the case. They are very active at night and I always see them out and moving.
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We’ll keep you giving you tricks to try! Thankfully they really can do fine for quite a while with no food. I have four hatchlings who haven’t eaten yet and it’s been now a month since they hatched and they haven’t lost weight at all. One even gained weight somehow? (Maybe she just took a drink of water or something.)
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Since they are so active at night maybe you could just drop a super warm pink in their enclosures just for kicks and grins…… they might be hunting maybe
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yeah maybe? Also my vet said they would sex them for free so I went there today and since they don’t get many tiny corns the used a light to try sex them and they believe pebbles to be male and bambam to be female. They also mentioned they had a lot of poop in them so could that be a reason they haven’t eaten?
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After they refuse food in the smaller tubs I always leave it in their main tubs overnight and it never works.
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ahhhhhhh maybe a swim in some nice warm water to get the poop going and empty their stomachs? 
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But don’t put them in the smaller tubs first. Just leave them in the big tubs
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@shadowspiderjack If they are full of poop that could be the not eating problem…
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I offer them in the big tubs first then move them to the smaller ones.
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This might be part of your issue, you’re moving them around a bit much. Have you been offering in the big bin then moving to the smaller in the same day? Tbh reading back through the thread, you’ve been moving them while trying to get them to eat a lot. I know you’re getting a lot of advice, but always try the same feeding space a few times in a row before switching to a new one. I always try altering the feeder before the feeding space.
Here’s one to try with the pinkies that has a high success rate for me: with a warm pinky, squeeze the head gently until you feel the skull “pop”, then take your fingernails or something else to pinch and peel down the skin over the top of the head. Place this at the entrance to whatever hide the baby is in, leave it, and walk away. No peeking in, no moving anyone, just leave them be a solid 24 hours. I do think we as humans tend to be a little bit hover-y when dealing with baby animals, much to everyone’s detriment.
Also I question the vet saying they have a lot of poop in them, these are hatchlings who haven’t eaten, they don’t have a lot of stool fresh out of the egg, and what they do have is sorta yellow/orange.
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I have been offering in their tubs first then moving them into a smaller tub after they refuse. They have also only pooped once since hatching so it could be from the yolk? I’m really not sure. I’ve been refraining from handling them too since I don’t want to stress them out.
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Before their first meal, they usually only poop once, sometimes twice. They should not have any poop in them at this point.
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Both of them pooped already around their first sheds so that makes sense. Could the vet have mistaken it for something else? I’m just getting pretty confused now.
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Yes, likely your vet is mistaking the visibility of organs as poop. Concerning, but not unusual, as many vets insist they know reptiles but really don’t have much experience at all.
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Also, I would really recommend against bathing them. It’s very stressful for most corns, especially babies. It can be helpful for constipation or egg binding, but these babies definitely don’t fall into either of those categories.
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ah ok then that makes a bit more sense.
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In Amel morphs, you can see the heart and abdominal organs pretty clearly when they’re hatchlings, and they get less visible as they get older. If your vet doesn’t normally deal with neonates, then they’ve likely not seen this phenomena much, if at all before.
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yeah I think that’s the case since they would usually pop younger corns but they sad they didn’t feel they were able to pop one of their size.
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Yeah, that’s a pretty big tell that they usually see patients that are more like months old, not less than a month. Don’t worry too much just yet, babies can be stubborn as heck and they’ll drive you bonkers thinking they’ll never eat.
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