ILoveRJ
Juvie Member
I contemplated putting this under ER. Im very concerned. RJ is almost 3 and STILL will not eat veggies, or should I say greens. When he was little he did pretty good with them. But now he'll only eat a little bell pepper, summer squash, blueberries, that's typically the only stuff. HE WILL NOT EAT ANYTHING GREEN IN COLOR! He's pretty healthy overall, (which seems fortunate as he has adenovirus) except that he spends a lot of time in his "corner" basically sleeping, but mostly aware. Like he pops his eyes open if he hears me. I feel like he should be more active, he's been doing this for a little while now. He has his period after brumation (which isn't a true brumation as i've been told they shouldn't if they have any sort of illness, so I don't turn his lights out, but he does go in his corner, sleeps, and doesn't eat) that he bounces off the walls most the day and doesn't eat. He usually starts eating ferociously when his bouncing off the walls period is over. But it's much too soon for brumation. He still has a hell of alm appetite, and would eat every day if I let him, but i've only been giving him crickets ( he eats a ton of them) every other day in hopes he'll eat veggies (greens) on off days. But no luck. I've even gone two days with no crickets on occasion. Im just worried. I mean, seems to me there's a reason they are suppose to go to primarily veggies after reaching adulthood right? Well, almost 3 and not only is he not eating primarily veggies, but he eats almost none. At what point does it become detrimental to his health? Super worms seem to constipate him, so i only do those on rare occasion, I havnt done silk worms in a while (he's some times snobby about them) I get him horn worms occasionally, butter worms and wax worms occasionally, and he use to get primarily roaches, but now I do crickets. So that's not much of a varied diet. I just don't know what to do. I've tried EVERYTHING to get him to eat greens. He's just so stubborn. I desperately pray that someone has some magical words of wisdom!!! Thanks in advance for any input