My Beardie will only eat mealworms

[AmandaK]

Our 4 month old Beardie will only eat mealworms. When we got her a couple months ago she would eat crickets but no vegetables or fruits. Now she has stopped eating crickets too. I have tried collard greens, romaine lettuce, corn, carrots, peas, green beans, apples, pears and bananas. I tried the freeze dried crickets too. I was told not to give her to many mealworms as they are fatty. I don't know what to do since that is the only thing she will eat.

 

[beardie parents]

Try butterworms or phoenix worms. The best place to get phoenix worms is here: http://www.phoenixworms.com.

 

[peera]

Not only are they fatty, but the hard shell is an impaction risk. You can give her superworms, but only after she's 16 inches. Try the other types of worms- butterworms, phoenix worms, hornworms, silkworms... But they all tend to get very expensive. Really, the best, cheapest thing to do is just to keep offering crickets and hope she starts taking them again.

 

[Sheridan456]

hey, i wouldnt worry about too many meal worms, its wax worms that are fatty people wont give meal worms to babies because theyre harder to digest, but my beardie is the same age as urs and hes fine on them, he seems to be going through stages. so i wouldnt be concerned. Ull probably find that the older your beardy gets the more it will eat veg x (p.s, thats just what i was told from a reptile store) the other one to try is locusts, but dont give her too many because theyre addictive x

 

[dragons1222]

mealworms should never be given to beardies they do not sigest them well

you can only give superworms if you can find babies as they bigger ones will be too big

just stop offering mealworms all together and keep offering crickets she will eat them eventialy

also with the greens she is still young so i would not worry about that for now just keep offering them and she will start to eat them