crickest
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My son's beardie (I'm sharing ownership until I get my own) Spark is in great health. He eats great every day, is active, nice and fat. He is between 5 and 6 months old (or so we were told - his is between 12 - 13 inches long) and a great eater. He is handfed squash 2 X day, eats about a half cup of cut dandelions, 40 - 60 crickets 2X day and 10 -12 silkies. I am dusting the crickets once a day, 5X a week with calcium. My problem occurs when I dust the crickets with the multi-vitamin.
He refuses to eat them. He will take one or two, look at me in disgust, beard and turn dark, then leave the crickets and go to his basking log. While on his log, he remains dark and does his best crouching-dragon-I-am-one-with-the-log routine, and he beards and displays if I try to pick him up to take him back to the crickets (I feed them out of a tall sided pyrex dish that I put in his viv, since he stresses and won't eat if I try to take him out.)
If he won't eat the multi-vit criks, what else do I need to add to his squash and dandelions to give him all the vites he needs?
Thanks for the help. Karen
He refuses to eat them. He will take one or two, look at me in disgust, beard and turn dark, then leave the crickets and go to his basking log. While on his log, he remains dark and does his best crouching-dragon-I-am-one-with-the-log routine, and he beards and displays if I try to pick him up to take him back to the crickets (I feed them out of a tall sided pyrex dish that I put in his viv, since he stresses and won't eat if I try to take him out.)
If he won't eat the multi-vit criks, what else do I need to add to his squash and dandelions to give him all the vites he needs?
Thanks for the help. Karen