six beardies refusing dubias

[shrangley]

Feeding issues have been discussed but not regarding multiple dragons refusing dubias. My BD range in age from 9 mo thru 6 yrs. Suddenly they're all boycotting dubias. Some BD are brumating but not all. I raise my own supers, mealworms & dubias. They all eat supers, some eat mealworms but none will eat dubias. Any suggestions? Right now it's a power struggle & I don't want to give in. I put a big dish of different size dubias which scoot around when prodded.
Thanks for any input. Otherwise all my guys are happy & healthy.

 

[brittani299]

Hello . My beardies don't like dubia at all. They won't even try them.

 

[brooklynsour]

im having opposite trouble with hornworms my beardie only wants dubias...

 

[Damieboo]

I started breeding crickets and that's when my beardies went cold turkey on them. ):< Darn lizards...

 

[Taterbug]

Mine has recently decided he only wants super worms and freshly molted dubia. Maybe offer some white ones?

 

[lexus465]

You could try withholding all other feeders for a week or so. This may convince them to eat the dubia.

 

[shrangley]

After being frustrated when my six BDs wouldn't eat their dubias, I offered a shmorg of supers and arugula and snuck in a few dubias. This tactic met with mixed success so I'm continuing it. My older adults are brumating so they ignore everything (except bath water). Knowing they need to see their food moving, originally I'd offered a full bowl of wriggling dubias; that's what they ignored. They don't seem to want a large volume of food in front of them. I thought the dubias may attack the supers but that hasn't happened. Their appetites are commensurate with their ages, the juvi eating the most, the mature adults the least. Many thanks to everyone who responded, from: Taco Bill, Sophie Lophie, Scootch, Falcor aka the King, Maggie 527, DiggerMan and their proud mama!

 

[Sauzo]

Maybe they are tired of them? I know Harley loved dubias for a few months, then got kinda burnt out on them so I changed it up and gave her butterworms which she went bananas for for about a month. Now those are old news and she is back to liking dubias. The only thing that Harley likes day after day is collard greens. She never gets tried of those. I'd try and change it up for maybe butterworms, hornworms, silkworms along with the other stuff you are feeding them. Also can try letting the dubias run the length of the cage to get the dragons interested. Harley loves when I throw a dubia in her cage and it runs. She tears off after it and snatches it, chews it up and then stands up all tall like Godzilla after wrecking Tokyo This usually goes on for about 4-5 big dubias before she gets full and just watches the roaches do laps back and forth along the edge of the cage.