izzbo
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Hey everyone!
I've got a male beardie named Klaude. He is 1.5 years old right now. Here is some background on his feeding habbits. He went off crickets at about 3 months old and basically ate silkworms as his primary diet until he turned 1 year old (I also mixed things up w/butters, horned worms, meal worms as treats and of course tried to get him to eat his greens). For some reason when he turned about 1 he didn't want to eat the silkworms anymore. So I switched to supers for the most part and also horned worms every so often to keep things interesting for him. He is fed live food every other day and salads every day. He isn't a big salad eater but he will munch on it.
Now starts the reason I started this post. About 9 months ago I started ordering roaches online for him to eat to see if he liked them. He really did. I went through 3 orders of 30 in a month so I figured I'll start a colony of my own. Right as I started the colony his eating slowed down due to braumation and he didn't want to eat much at all. He came out of braumation in March but I kept feeding him supers (and horned worms b/c he loves those) and not roaches b/c I had a lot of supers saved from when he was in braumation. Last week I took out 7 roaches from the colony and he happily ate them. The next feeding time (2 days later) I grab 7 more roaches. He eats the 1st one and I try to give him another one and he is not interested in it what-so-ever. I tried for 5 minutes or so but no luck. I got out the supers and he chowed down on them like normal (so I know he was hungry). I tried tricking him by giving him a roach in the middle of the super feeding but that didn't work. He almost ate it but once he realized it wasn't a super he didn't want it.
My question is is there anything I can do to get him to like roahces (I know that sounds like a stupid question) b/c I have a nice size colony and would like to use it or should I just feed him what he likes at that time. I've heard they can get addicted to supers and not want anything else. Could this be the case? He is a picky eater sometimes but it usually takes a few months before he gets sick of a food item, not a day. And how come he used to like them? Could the roaches in my colony taste different based on what I feed them?
Thanks in advance everyone!
I've got a male beardie named Klaude. He is 1.5 years old right now. Here is some background on his feeding habbits. He went off crickets at about 3 months old and basically ate silkworms as his primary diet until he turned 1 year old (I also mixed things up w/butters, horned worms, meal worms as treats and of course tried to get him to eat his greens). For some reason when he turned about 1 he didn't want to eat the silkworms anymore. So I switched to supers for the most part and also horned worms every so often to keep things interesting for him. He is fed live food every other day and salads every day. He isn't a big salad eater but he will munch on it.
Now starts the reason I started this post. About 9 months ago I started ordering roaches online for him to eat to see if he liked them. He really did. I went through 3 orders of 30 in a month so I figured I'll start a colony of my own. Right as I started the colony his eating slowed down due to braumation and he didn't want to eat much at all. He came out of braumation in March but I kept feeding him supers (and horned worms b/c he loves those) and not roaches b/c I had a lot of supers saved from when he was in braumation. Last week I took out 7 roaches from the colony and he happily ate them. The next feeding time (2 days later) I grab 7 more roaches. He eats the 1st one and I try to give him another one and he is not interested in it what-so-ever. I tried for 5 minutes or so but no luck. I got out the supers and he chowed down on them like normal (so I know he was hungry). I tried tricking him by giving him a roach in the middle of the super feeding but that didn't work. He almost ate it but once he realized it wasn't a super he didn't want it.
My question is is there anything I can do to get him to like roahces (I know that sounds like a stupid question) b/c I have a nice size colony and would like to use it or should I just feed him what he likes at that time. I've heard they can get addicted to supers and not want anything else. Could this be the case? He is a picky eater sometimes but it usually takes a few months before he gets sick of a food item, not a day. And how come he used to like them? Could the roaches in my colony taste different based on what I feed them?
Thanks in advance everyone!