How to get my lizard to start eating carrots & lettes
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It wont eat them just the mealworms
Don't feed lettuce. It has basically 0 nutritional value. Go with darker greens like collard and mustard greens. Just keep offering fresh greens and he should eventually start to take them. I don't have much beardie experience, so others might have better imput
Looks like iceburg lettuce there...stay away from iceburg and carrrots...offer dark greens everyday and it will eat them.
As others have said.... no lettuce.... dark greens (not spinach) collard greens, turnip greens, dandelion greens... things like that.... don't do carrots all the time either...thats just a treat.
it should be eating crickets as the staple insect as well not meal worms.... but you should offer meal worms (as well as various other creepy crawlies) variety is key.
try offering bugs on one day and salad on the next.
it should be eating crickets as the staple insect as well not meal worms.... but you should offer meal worms (as well as various other creepy crawlies) variety is key.
try offering bugs on one day and salad on the next.
You can also trick it by making a moving salad, put some mealies under the salad, it moves, the beardie eats it
why no spinach?
i often put 1-2 mealworms in my juvies salad and he devours everything in the bowl lol.
If/When you do offer carrots, offer shreded not chunks. Just use the carrot peeler to to make paper think slices. Though keep the above recommendations in mind when you are deciding how often to offer carrots.
Most Omnivore reptiles eat more meat as juvis and then eat more plant matter once they are fully grown. This is because gorwing requires much more protein and calories, which is more abundant in meat than plants.
Roaches are one of the best bugs to use as food. Crickets hold very little nutrients (they are the lettuce of bugs
). So if/when you use crickets be sure to gut load them (gut loading is simply feeding prey what you want your reptile to eat). So if you want your reptile to eat more veggies, simply feed veggies to the bugs the reptile will eat.
Most Omnivore reptiles eat more meat as juvis and then eat more plant matter once they are fully grown. This is because gorwing requires much more protein and calories, which is more abundant in meat than plants.
Roaches are one of the best bugs to use as food. Crickets hold very little nutrients (they are the lettuce of bugs
). So if/when you use crickets be sure to gut load them (gut loading is simply feeding prey what you want your reptile to eat). So if you want your reptile to eat more veggies, simply feed veggies to the bugs the reptile will eat.that's not the point , beardies need a varied diet to truly thrive , greens are a must as well not one or the other.