No longer eating her veggies

[RobertD]

My girl is about a year now. Before she would love eating veggies and would chow down. About the time that I had switched her from crickets to dubias she has pretty much stopped eating veggies all together. I have tried changing what kind of veggies I give her, how I cut them up and how they look on the dish. But she just won't eat the veggies. She will go straight for the dubias when I feed them to her, so I don't think its a problem that would cause her to not eat at all. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do to get her eating veggies again and what may have caused her to not want to eat them anymore

 

[CooperDragon]

They can be picky and moody sometimes. As long as she is eating, that's a good sign. I would keep doing what you're doing and offer variety and my guess is that she will go back to salads. It may take some time and patience though.

 

[AndyHarp94]

When do you generally give her the veggies, before or after the dubias? Dubi's have a lot more meat on them than crickets do so it could just be that she's getting full and doesn't want anything else to eat. I know with my Spyro I have to practically force feed him mustard greens if it's after dinner time but if he hasn't eaten yet he goes to town on these greens :lol:

If you haven't tried that yet I would recommend doing so, hope that helps!

 

[RobertD]

I keep fresh veggies in her cage at all times and then just give her the dubias twice a day. When I first switched to dubias she was eating a lot more of them than I was thinking she would and there was a time where she was out of dubias for a day or two. During that time she wouldn't even eat her veggies and would just sit on her log all day long.

This term at college I have been extremely busy with my classes and homework and have not been able to hold her as much as I used to. That could cause her to be moody right?

 

[Taterbug]

At her age, if she is getting twice daily bug delivery she may just not care to bother to eat the salad, even if she misses a few days of bugs. If she is in a healthy body condition you can safely move from two to one insect feeding at this point. You can even skip a day of insects here and there (on those busy days). Offering a salad all day will let her forage if she get hungry, and feeding insects at the end of the day will give her a chance to pick at the salad first. Some dragons will happily eat nothing but insects if given the chance