Unusual feeding problems

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reptilemaster

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So my little Nova likes to eat clovers.
But only outside! He will not eat them from a bowl in his tank or from my hand.
I have to take him outside to the clover patch for him to eat them.

Also he will eat the bearded dragon pellets, but also not from the bowl, I have to hand feed them to him.

It's kinda cute but also kinda annoying, like I can't just leave some clover in his tank for him he wont eat them even if he hasn't eaten yet.

He does chase down crickets and worms though, its like for eating other food then insects he can't recognize it out of a context...

I don't mind hand feeding him though, I just wonder if I can get him to eat greens and pellets from the bowl.
 

KarrieRee

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Hiccup he is 6 and Blaze is 4
I would ditch the pellets for some nice salad w/ some BSFL on it -- that will entice him to the salad bowl - you will need a ceramic dish or glass so the BSFL cant get out of it
 

Gail

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Maybe try a different bowl or even a small plate. When I first got sam, he didn't know how to use a bowl and the sides confused him.
I started using a small plate for greens and it really helped. I used a large, like bread pan sized dish for bugs, he would just leap inside to hunt.
Eventually he learned how to look inside the smaller dishs for food.
He does have two dished for food, a little deeper glass dish that his supers can't escape from and a shallow, bit wider one for greens.
 
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