At my wits end with Rojo! Need expert advice!!

[Roja]

Rojo, to his size & weight detriment, refuses to eat ANYTHING except worms. I invested a ton of $ in a roach colony and now he wont touch them either. He has been withering away. I thought he was in semi-brumation.. he hadn't hardly eaten in MONTHS.. but one day, out of desperation, I bought a couple superworms from the local petstore and low and behold! He went ballistic and couldn't stop eating.

So after a week of feeding him supers and wax's (to get some weight back on).. I realize that he just wont eat crickets or roaches.. he doesn't want any insects with legs (beetles, crickets, etc).

Now I have a huge, fully established roach colony.. which made me soooo happy that I didn't have to spend a fortune on individual worms..

I don't know that I have the time or patience to breed supers... although I know its possible.

*sigh*

Anyone else have a picky eater??

Can he live on just supers, salads and occasional wax's?

Thoughts!?

 

[catUK]

I am no expert but i can give my advice from experience. My beardie is SO picky. I think once they get the taste of worms then they refuse crickets etc- my beardie did that. Beardies can be very stubborn and refuse food until they get what they want i.e. the worms. I feed my beardie supers (morio's UK) and locusts but have found with the supers she's been putting on weight too quick as they are fatty (so are the wax worms) so i'm now having to cut back on the supers and give her the 'tough love' treatment to try and get her to eat salad- good that yours is eating it. Fortunately she's re-developed her liking of locusts again. For the time being, if he is underweight then it will be ok to feed supers then eventaully start cutting back and re-introducing the other feeders in the hope he'll want them again- they get bored of the same foods- like i said earlier mine got bored of locusts then decided she liked them again- DIVA! Not sure if this helps at all