My beardie hates hornworms... WHAT?!?

[XtinaBeardieMom]

My dragon Lotus has always been a great eater. She eats her greens and her live feeders eagerly all the time. She's eaten everything from butterworms, dubias, phoenix worms, and wax worms - all with enthusiasm. So I recently orderd her 36 large hornworms (got 45 with overcount, spent about $44 including shipping) from Great Lakes Hornworm, and she WILL NOT eat them! She's eaten only 2 total, one each in separate sittings. The first time, it took us about 5 minutes to get her to eat one. We didn't try to feed her another at the moment. Today it took us 10 minutes to get her to eat one and she refused to eat another. We thought maybe she just wasn't hungry (but that's never the case) so we put a dubia in front of her just to see, and she munched it up in a split second! We tried for another 20 minutes to try to get her to eat another hornworm to no avail. We made sure they were wiggly and everything!! I have never heard of a dragon refusing to eat hornworms... in fact I thought hornworms were premium feeders very high up on the dragon approval list. I've even heard of some dragons getting spoiled on hornworms & refusing to eat anything else. I've never seen Lotus refuse any kind of food, not to mention food of the live variety. What on earth is up with this?? And what am I supposed to do with my $44 in hornworms now?!

 

[wilddanny88]

Wow that really sucks! As for what you could do with the hornworms, educational project? lol

 

[ynevar]

Trade with someone else for a feeder she loves?

 

[XtinaBeardieMom]

Trade with someone else for a feeder she loves?

Good idea... I made a post in the "For Sale" section and also offered the option to trade for other feeders. The item listing is here >>> [ Invalid URL Removed / p= t=174038 f=2 ] if anyone is interested. Ugggghh I can't believe my dragon will eat anything except one of the most premium feeders out there!! I really hope I can recoup something from out of this endeavor :|

 

[ynevar]

I hope you can too! I just spent a bunch of money on dubia nymphs and I am hoping the SAME thing... Best of luck finding someone who will quickly snatch them up!!!

 

[sdunfee77]

Shoot. My ginger is on a kick now and will ONLY eat hornworms! She went through this a few months ago. She still eats a little greens but snubs her nose at dubia until i get her horns

 

[ynevar]

check that post then... I don't know if they are gone already...

 

[XtinaBeardieMom]

Shoot. My ginger is on a kick now and will ONLY eat hornworms! She went through this a few months ago. She still eats a little greens but snubs her nose at dubia until i get her horns

Congrats, you win the hornworms! Lol I have them sitting next to me ready to ship out as soon as the Post Office opens, plus your dubias too!

 

[szubelak]

when I first ordered hornworms my boys wouldn't eat them either - Same thing with got them to each eat 1 with some pushing and all that etc. The next time I got some I got some smaller ones - like only 2 inch as opposed to the 3-4 inch size and they gobbled them up - once they realized they were gooooooood eats they started to gobble up even the huge 4 inch ones! I know how 1 dragon that snubs his nose at his supers unless he's starving (like hasn't eaten in 3-4 days)

I thought it was crazy at first when mine wouldn't eat them too!