Brieana
Hatchling Member
I've had my 2 year old male for 2 and a half weeks and he was a great eater (mostly) until I got him some butternut squash. He ate his whole salad a couple days in a row and then started picking out the squash and leaving the rest. He gets mostly mustard greens, a little bit of collards, some endive and cactus pads all chopped up.
When I withhold the squash, he doesn't touch his food. When I bury it, he digs it out. When I finely grate it up and mix it all up, he picks out the big chunks and maybe eats a mustard leaf or two. I put super worms under his salad this morning and he picked them all out, leaving the salad mostly intact.
I have been beefing up his protein intake because he was a little skinny when I got him and he never stops acting hungry when he gets bugs. He downed 40 3/4" crickets in less than 7 minutes and wanted more last week. Lately he's been getting 7-10 supers every other day. At his last home, he got 10 crickets once a week.
I have read the suggestion to give him less bugs, but I'm chicken about trying the tough love approach. He's not skinny, but he isn't at a size I would consider robust. I just weighed him, he's about 425 grams and 18 inches long.
Should I never feed him butternut squash again? Should I find him a less delicious type of squash? Haha.
When I withhold the squash, he doesn't touch his food. When I bury it, he digs it out. When I finely grate it up and mix it all up, he picks out the big chunks and maybe eats a mustard leaf or two. I put super worms under his salad this morning and he picked them all out, leaving the salad mostly intact.
I have been beefing up his protein intake because he was a little skinny when I got him and he never stops acting hungry when he gets bugs. He downed 40 3/4" crickets in less than 7 minutes and wanted more last week. Lately he's been getting 7-10 supers every other day. At his last home, he got 10 crickets once a week.
I have read the suggestion to give him less bugs, but I'm chicken about trying the tough love approach. He's not skinny, but he isn't at a size I would consider robust. I just weighed him, he's about 425 grams and 18 inches long.
Should I never feed him butternut squash again? Should I find him a less delicious type of squash? Haha.