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Hey guys! It took a while to get Odahviing to eat her vegetables and she doesn't usually finish them so I just end up giving the leftovers to my roach colony. I had a good system going for a while. However she's recently stopped eating her veggies. Not completely at this point, she'll take a bite or two and nibble a little bit but normally she does just ignore them. It's no cause for alarm because she eats protein based based foods like a dinosaur and she's certainly been feasting like a tyrannosaurus lately because I want to compensate for her not touching the vegetables. She's had her usual crickets and roaches and some occasional worms and I also gave her three nice treats of a beetle, a fat slug and some peaces of an unsalted hard boiled egg I found in the fridge. She even had quite a treat today as she had her first thawed out pinky mouse which she loved. She's even attacked my finger a couple times so yes she eats her protein like a champion and I'm not worried at all about her health failing but I of course don't want to deprive her of all those good vitamins and minerals in her usual veggies. Since I have researched the best veggies for dragons and as she's still small she eats well chopped parsnips, watercress, sweet potatoes and spaghetti squash though it's been a couple months since she's had the last one. On occasion she'll have a little bit of collared greens and sometimes I'll give her some carrots. Recently she even got some green bell pepper. Usually I mix it all together but sometimes if I'm exhausted she'll settle for one chopped vegetable. I noticed this started happening just under two weeks ago after I returned from a weekend camping with a friend up north. My Dad watched the animals while I was gone and since I warned him that Odahviing will bite sometimes he didn't want to put his hand in the tank for long so he just shoved a small bowl of food in there that would last a few days and it turns out the bowl was a little high for her so she didn't get much if anything. You would think she'd be really hungry after not eating for 3 days but now she will barely touch sweet potato which is by far her favorite of the category. Did she just go off vegetables cold turkey? I know beardies under a year and a half will be just fine eating mostly protein and I would assume she's probably about 8 months, still considerably far from even sub adult size so I know she'll do fine with mostly protein for now but I ask will she be okay in the long run? I REALLY don't want to have to train her to eat her vegetables all over again when she's older, especially considering her jaws will be powerful enough to snap a mouse's neck by then so imagine my finger. What do you guys think I should do?
