Ignoring Greens...

[kmc4392]

So Dalia is being a bad girl and only wanting to eat Crickets, waxworms and blueberries. Her pooping habits have improved now that she's been eating a regular amount of crickets everyday. (Before she would poop every 4-5 days) now it's only a 2 day gap between poops. My question is, even though she has eaten greens before, why is she suddenly ignoring them? I will put waxworms on the days I only give her greens to try and entice her appetite for the greens, but she will just pick them out. Yesterday I put blueberries in the salad of mustard greens and she ignored it and stayed in her cave. She seemed punky this morning and stayed at the mouth of the cave. I picked her up and put her on top of the cave to warm her up.

I don't want her to get fatty liver disease from eating too many crickets, but I also don't want her to starve. She always seems to scarf down the crickets when I give them to her like I'm not giving her enough food.

Strangely she will eat greens outside, usually though it's only the occasional dandelion leaf or other weeds.

Any advice would be appreciated

 

[aepstein]

How old is she?

 

[kmc4392]

Well I rescued her from some people back in February. They said they had her for 9 months. So best guess is probably a little over a year now? I have no idea how old she was when they got her...and I don't think they knew how to properly feed her both protein and veggies.

 

[CooperDragon]

Can you post some photos of her? I wouldn't worry about too many crickets yet as she's still fairly young but it may be about time to start to transition to veges. If she's a healthy weight you may be able to try offering only fresh salads for a week and see if she goes for them. It's a little extreme but sometimes the tough love approach works in these situations.

 

[kmc4392]

I'll try to get some perspective shots of her to show her size and stuff later.