beardie not digesting salad?

[Nireidi]

I know if your over feeding crickets there can be undigested cricket parts in their stool, but what about undigested bit of salad? does it mean the pieces are too big? my beardie is about 3 months old and i do put salad in his tank everyday, not a whole lot and he never eats all of it, but he does eat a fair amount, he really get excited when he watches me prepare it, what should i be doing? should i put even less salad in his tank? i kinda figured he stop eating if he wasn't hungry, or should i only offer every other day or something?

 

[CooperDragon]

It's great that one so young is eating greens. It's a good habit to get into. It should still only be around 25% of his diet though so provide plenty of bugs too. What are you putting in the salads? It's possible that the pieces are large or there is an item in the salads which is difficult to digest. What are your tank temperatures and UVB source? Those can also have an effect on digestion.

 

[Nireidi]

right now I've been feeling dandelion greens with a tiny bit of butternut squash, i try to make sure all of the pieces of his salad are smaller than the space between his eyes, the tank temperature is 100-105 at the basking spot and I have the standard UVB that was recommended to me when I bought him. I have been feeding a few less crickets then i know he can eat cuz when i bought him they said he had a habit of eating himself sick sometimes (he was the smallest in the tank but also the fastest) should i maybe feed more crickets?

 

[CooperDragon]

Those are good items to put in a salad. What brand and size is the UVB? The temps are good. I would increase the crickets to all he wants in about a 10 minute window but if he's having some digestive problems you may want to hold off on that for a little bit. It's possible that the issue is just temporary upset stomach and will fix itself on it's own soon. You may also want to try feeding a little bit of probiotic such as bene-bac for reptiles/birds. It's also possibly a parasitic infection which can be determined by running a test on a fecal sample at the vet.