officially a slave

i think i earned my badge the other day. i put in about 30 crickets in Prana's tank, and he ate the first 5 or so that were within reach of him. all the crickets were on the other side of his tank in no time, so i blew down into that side and the crickets would run away toward Prana. it was only then, that he would eat the crickets. once they got away, he never moved, just sat there looking at me waiting for me to do it again. he ate about 50 crickets this feeding (they were smaller than normal, better small than too big), and i had to stand there the entire time luring the crickets toward him. i can't complain tho, i enjoyed it. :mrgreen:

 

[vickson420]

Yup your a slave.Welcome to the club :wink:

 

[slavetoIzzie]

:wave: :whip: :laughing6:

 

[Seig]

Next, he will make you hand feed him.
You've been Beardy Branded

 

[gregorydragon]

:laughhard: :laughhard: :laughhard:
I literally just finished doing the same thing! Blowing and chasing them with my hand so they would go towards my beardie!
:whip: :whip: :whip:

 

[leann]

Yep......I have to do the exact same thing...except with worms......he comes chasing them

 

[Ashleabdlover]

oh my god! i have to do that with my boy.
he wont chase them, he just sits there and waits for me to push them over to him.
haha, its rediculous. but its okay, if hes happy, im happy

 

[Eric_Dragonkeeper]

oh my god! i have to do that with my boy.
he wont chase them, he just sits there and waits for me to push them over to him.
haha, its rediculous. but its okay, if hes happy, im happy

They get so spoiled and only eat the close ones. lol "can you push that over here for me?"

 

[sunkist]

I love it.... mine does basically the same thing however, I have yet to scoot the crickets to them. He/she just sits there and waits for them to come within reach.

Just now I got the glare of "where are the rest of my crickets?"... I'm out - only had 5 for his/her breakfast.

 

[beardie parents]

Speedy's starting to do the same thing. If she's really, really hungry then she'll chase them down, otherwise she waits for them to come within her head.

The new one I've only had for 2 weeks, this evening only chases crickets when she's hungry. She's starting to do the same thing that Speedy is, waiting for the crickets to come to her, unless it's in the am and she's really hungry.

 

[gregorydragon]

I've said this before in other discussions, but I really need to start recording Mango's feedings. The other day, I decided to take everything out of his viv before feeding. I dumped in a few crickets and he went after them!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: It was like a "who's who" of the fastest beardies in the land! :laughhard: I started cracking up! Of course at that point, he gave me a glare as if to say "What!? I'm hungry in here!" :laughhard: I was thoroughly impressed. I have a 20 long tank. He went after a medium sized cricket, which jumped at just the right moment to escape to the other side of the tank. In the blink of an eye Mango sprinted (teleported) to the cricket and gobbled him instantly. I didn't know he could move that fast.

 

[Epic]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who got suckered into this. lol. i don't hve to do it as much now. when 15 minutes is up and i'm taking out the extra crix, little houdini sees that i'm taking them and starts chasing them down again. we sometimes have a race for the crix. lol. i like to see how big his belly is when he's done. he just drags that thing around everywhere he walks! :lol:

 

[gregorydragon]

I have realized that Mango's gusto about eating crix depends on what other insects I have fed him recently. If I feed him something else like worms or roaches, he practically starves for a few feedings of crix (eating only a few) before he'll finally just give in a chow down on them (the crix). I fed him worms the other day (he ate 3 hornworms) and he hasn't eaten right since, well...until I hand fed him crix all day today. This seems to work great, but part of the fun of feeding is watching him chase them down.

 

[Ashleabdlover]

ive noticed my girl is starting to do that too!

yeaterday, she seriously was like not eating at all (crickets)
and so i hand fed her some pheonix worms and she ate them right away.

she finally did end up eating the crickets, but only cause im guessing she got really really hungry.

some people tell me that they've seen their beardies jsut completly stop eating crickets and then they gave them roaches and they would just eat that.

i hope that doesnt happen. i'd die before i had a box full of roaches in my house.

 

[dragon2nick1]

if i try hand feeding her she thinks my hand is part of the food