DRAGON WILL NOT EAT SALAD!

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this I am new here and have a question that I would like to be answered as soon as possible. ok so I have about a two year old Bearded dragon (tom)
she is female and wont eat salad at all she used to all the time but now she wont eat any. just crickets and commercial bearded dragon food. oh yeah I feed her collard greens with occasional fruits and peppers. to get her to eat I have tried: putting super worms in salad, sticking some salad in her mouth while she is gaping, making the salad as colorful and tasty as I possibly can, drizzled water on greens, clipping some to the wall of her cage to see if she will rip some off, that failed. SHE JUST WONT EAT salad. her ubv is a reptiglo 10.0 I change every year with no problems before. though I have heard bad things about reptiglo but she has been fine with it. her temps are 110 F at top of basking spot I measure my temps with a digital thermometer.

sorry that that this is so long but I need a little help.

 

[CooperDragon]

Getting them to eat salads can be tough sometimes. I usually offer 2-3 items per salad and change it up regularly depending on what's fresh in the grocery store. I've found squash (different kinds) can be a good item to feed. You can make it look like worms which gets interest a lot of the time. There are other good ideas for salad items here: http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html If variety doesn't do the trick, since she's an adult you can try withholding other food for a few days to try and get her to eat her salad (make only salads available). Sometimes that can do the trick too.

 

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I will try your advice and post the results :lol: I will aslo try the link



thanks.

 

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

OK its been about an hour since I put her salad in her cage I put cucumbers, orange bell peppers broccoli (I was out of greens), blueberry's, apple and a bit of carrot and she stared at it for a while then went back to basking lol stubborn little thing by the way sorry I forgot to add this to my list of things I've tried ive tried withholding food already. that didn't work

 

[CooperDragon]

One trick I've been working on recently is to cook up some squash and then take the cooled soft squash and roll it into worm shapes and move them around a bit in front of her. That may be worth a try. Most kinds of squash work well. Spaghetti squash already has that worm-like appearance so that may work well too. Keep in mind it may take several months for these methods to start working. Patience is key :?

 

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

ok thanks again cooper I will try that and post back in a few weeks, or if your method works earlier then ill post.

 

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

GOOD NEWS and bad news

the good news is my beardie will now eat squash blueberrys and bell peppers.

still trying to get her to eat greens though

 

[CooperDragon]

It takes time. I'm glad to hear of the forward progress though!

 

[TOMTHEDRAGON]

thanks for the advice your squash cook-up worked so as mentioned she will eat squash. of course usually only if it looks like worms. :wink: