Food

[Mymontana1]

My beardie has stopped eating his greens and will only eat super worms and crickets. He liked kale and baby spinach but he won't touch it now. I'm afraid he's not getting all of his minerals and vitamins. And if I cover the bugs in calcium he won't eat them.

 

[SPandS]

How old is your dragon? The bugs should only get a light dusting of calcium but if your dragon still doesn't like it, some don't, you could always use liquid calcium. Do you use a multivitamin?

 

[Mymontana1]

He will be 3 in Aug. And no I don't give him anything. I've only tried to dust the calcium on the bugs and his greens

 

[SPandS]

I would get some liquid calcium and multivitamins. Since he's an adult he really should be eating his greens. I'm not sure how often you feed bugs but he doesn't need them every day. Instead offer a nice salad of different greens and vegetables and see what he likes. You can hold off on bugs for a while to hopefully make him hungry enough to want to eat his salads too. If that doesn't work you can eventually try making him a slurry of greens or even try some baby food like squash and add the calcium to that and just drip some in his nose. They usually really like it and have no issues eating it.

Basically just try different things to see if anything peaks his interest. And try liquid calcium and multivitamins because he could not like the powdered kind.

 

[KarrieRee]

Please stop feeding the super worms- he's holding out for the insects- 2-3 times per week on the bugs- and just keep offering the salads - not so much spinach but collards kale turnip mustard argulla romaine lettuce dandelion greens