White Dubia!

[gregorydragon]

I now have a well established dubia colony. My beardie has been eating roaches for several months now. Suddenly, he ONLY eats the freshly molted ones :shock:
I can't say that I blame him because they are so soft, but how far does the slavery go? I tried to get him to eat a brown roach for 10 minutes the other day and he just kept giving me the beardie glare. When I dropped a few white ones in his viv, he had them down in a matter of seconds. Am I the only person having this problem? A few months ago, someone posted about having this issue and I thought "man, that sucks for them" and now here I am.

 

[zebraflavencs]

Try powdering a brown with calD3 and see if that works.
Janie

 

[gregorydragon]

Try powdering a brown with calD3 and see if that works.
Janie

Tried that one already. I even tested this theory by dusting 2 or 3 regular brown ones and dusting a white one. He went straight for the white one and left the others.

 

[zebraflavencs]

You could just hold back the insects and feed him only salad for a day, then try again.
Janie.

 

[eruantalisse]

Hi, do you also feed other insects? It seems to me that some variation should do. Be honest: you wouldn't want to eat the same on a daily basis as well :wink: .

 

[gregorydragon]

Hi, do you also feed other insects? It seems to me that some variation should do. Be honest: you wouldn't want to eat the same on a daily basis as well :wink: .

I could eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches all day everyday :lol: :lol:
I have tried to mix it up a bit. I need to get more hornworms. He really likes those, he just gets super runny poop. The past two weeks we had dubia, crickets, superworms, and butterworms. That last time I tried silkworms he wouldn't touch them.