Superworm Accident

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nalani84

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I'm away on a business trip and my helpful husband is taking care of my young dragons. 14", 17", 18". I taught him how to feed veggies first then crickets later. I didn't even get into showing him the superworm bin as I only give those as treats. They're assorted in size so I only give the smaller guy the tiniest of worms, 1-2 every few days. The bigger dragons get bigger worms (I try to find the freshly molten ones), 2-3 every few days.

I received a text from my husband saying that he found the supers and gave my little guy 4 of them, which wasn't very alarming as he pooped right after. But he told me he fed the bigger dragons 15-20 EACH! I know he was only trying to help and he's very sorry now that I told him about impaction risks.

I'm on my way back from the trip and will immediately bathe them all (I live in the desert and bathe them every other day anyway) with gentle belly massages just in case.

My question is, does anyone else normally feed this many large worms with no problem? I'm just a bit worried about my dragons now.

Nalani
 

nursejones813

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When Slick was smaller, before I realized the impaction risk, I fed him 15-20 small ones at a time. He was fine. I wouldn't stress too much.
 

nalani84

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Ok. That's a little reassuring. I'm just hoping they poop tomorrow and then I'll be worry-free. :)
 

nalani84

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Ok. Does it depend more on the age or the length of the dragon? My 18" is almost 5 months, 17" almost 7 months and 14.5" almost 4 months.
 
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