Hi there! I have a juvenile beardie. We got him as a baby at Christmas. He's 16" nose to tail and 9.9 oz tiday.
I've been mostly feeding him Dubia roaches and greens but decided to give him some variety. So, I got Phoenix worms, super worms, and hornworms. He absolutely loves the hornworms and even looks up across the room for them. I've started hiding the container. :lol:
I'm not planning to make that his primary food due to cost but I've given in since he really wants them and have given him one or two with almost every meal.
Phoenix worms thrown on here and there and one or two superworms once or twice a day.
He is starting to lose interest in his Dubia now though! I'm working on establishing my colony and so I'd love it if that could be his main protein along with superworms which I'm starting to try and raise also.
Here's the thing. If I go into my colony and get a newly adult male, where it's still soft and white or still not hard, I'll give him that. He gobbles that down but I don't want to feed to many off my colony yet. At this point I'm just getting my ratio of male, female right. I have a small bin of medium sized ones I bought just for feeding him.
So he'll eat the hornworms, he'll usually eat the super worms. He gobbles up the hornworms, but now is mostly ignoring the medium Dubia.
What can I do to get him more interested again? He's actually my son's dragon but I care for him more. I'm afraid I've messed up and spoiled him with those juicy blue fat hornworms.
Thanks in advance.
I've been mostly feeding him Dubia roaches and greens but decided to give him some variety. So, I got Phoenix worms, super worms, and hornworms. He absolutely loves the hornworms and even looks up across the room for them. I've started hiding the container. :lol:
I'm not planning to make that his primary food due to cost but I've given in since he really wants them and have given him one or two with almost every meal.
Phoenix worms thrown on here and there and one or two superworms once or twice a day.
He is starting to lose interest in his Dubia now though! I'm working on establishing my colony and so I'd love it if that could be his main protein along with superworms which I'm starting to try and raise also.
Here's the thing. If I go into my colony and get a newly adult male, where it's still soft and white or still not hard, I'll give him that. He gobbles that down but I don't want to feed to many off my colony yet. At this point I'm just getting my ratio of male, female right. I have a small bin of medium sized ones I bought just for feeding him.
So he'll eat the hornworms, he'll usually eat the super worms. He gobbles up the hornworms, but now is mostly ignoring the medium Dubia.
What can I do to get him more interested again? He's actually my son's dragon but I care for him more. I'm afraid I've messed up and spoiled him with those juicy blue fat hornworms.
Thanks in advance.