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- Delaware, Ohio
I've had my dragon for a little over a week. He is 12 inches long. I can't get him to eat his salad at all. He will eat insects if I hand feed them to him (hornworms, reptiworms, and just today he took his first dead insects, cut up silkworms. I have dubia breeding too). He won't eat the salad from a bowl or from my hand. If I try to hand feed the salad to him he looks at me like he is insulted that I would suggest he eat anything but insects and back away from me. I even bought a Vivicator, it is a vibrating bowl that is supposed to make the food look like it is alive and moving so reptiles will eat from it. The thing is really neat and he was interested in it, but wouldn't eat from it. It makes a loud cricket chirping noise, I will see if my husband can disconnect that part. The salad consists of various spring greens, collard greens, a little bit of spinach, stuff like that. Shreaded carrots. I offered him some artichoke, he was very insulted by that. No iceberg lettuce. I have tried 3 different bowls, flat, deep, and the vibrating one. I've tried putting insects in the salad and then he won't eat the insects. I show him the bowls, I move the bowls to different areas, I sit him in the bowl, I hold the bowl to his face. LOL. I cut up fresh salad twice a day, morning and evening. Otherwise he is healthy, curious, very sweet. He has a mercury vapor bulb with the heat at a hair over 100 (I check it with my temp gun). He spends the majority of his day up at the highest point in his habitat watching the world go on around him. The cat did scratch him the other day (in another post) but he has been doing this with the salad since before then, so it isn't that. Ok, so does anyone have any suggestions on getting him to eat his salad?
