Little Miss Piggy!!

[jodavis10]

So I'm about to change Loki's name to Miss Piggy!! Omgosh she eats so much. I was told when I got her that she was a year old. That was a little over 3 weeks ago. She finally eats salad now, so she has that available all day, but usually only eats a few bites in the afternoon after looooong morning bask session. I feed her live around 5 or 6. Yesterday she ate 30 phoenix worms and about 30 crickets and sat there looking for more!! She would eat until she burst if I let her! My question is, everything I'm reading says that she should only be eating around 50 crickets a week....but she eats twice this a day!! Should I be limiting her intake or waiting until she does it herself??

 

[ashleyelsha]

How long is she from head to tail?

 

[jodavis10]

She's 18" long and last week at the vet she was 344 grams.

 

[ashleyelsha]

I am by no means an expert, and maybe someone else can chime in if any of the info I give is wrong.... , but I believe at that size and age they are to be fed greens every day and live food/ insects 3 times a week, as much as they can eat in about 10 minutes. Make sure you dust one feeding a day with calcium +D unless you get at least 30 minutes of sunlight or have a mercury vapor bulb, then you can just dust with calcium without D3 and twice a week dust with a multivitamin. Try shredding the greens and mixing in lots of bright colored veggies like yellow squash, colored bell peppers, and carrots because they are attracted to bright colors. Try moving the salad around with your fingers, I hand feed mine a lot so when he see's anything in my fingers he will usually at least taste it to see what it is. She will probably eat more salad if you only feed her live 3 times a week. Try only doing salad for 2-3 days to really get her to chow down on it. Mine usually only eats greens or salad if I don't feed any bugs till later in the day. Once he's had his bugs he is done, but my little guy is just now 11 1/2 inches so he's still a juvie and gets bugs twice a day.