Veggies, The On Going battle...

[Elders]

So, I saw a ton of people are having trouble getting their dragons to dig in to their veggies. I too am in this category....Odin is always giving me grief with a bowl of dried out veggies to replace when I get home from work....

So I took the advice of throwing the veggies into his roach bowl; and then throwing the roaches in; they are tiny enough to get under the veggies quick; and since hes a roach hound; he goes straight at them....and gets a mouth full of veggies.

Now I may have gotten lucky today; but he ate his veggies and bugs so.....

Ill mark a win for today.....



Apologies for some of the blurry ones; I had to act quick because he would start acting up when he sees the camera (As you can see in the last one; they were taken in succession)....He's a Ham

 

[Draeju's_world]

I tried giving mine some greens yesterday using my long feeding tweezers (he ignores it in the bowl) and he quickly back-hand swatted it away as if to say "get that outta my face!" lol

 

[Elders]

I tried giving mine some greens yesterday using my long feeding tweezers (he ignores it in the bowl) and he quickly back-hand swatted it away as if to say "get that outta my face!" lol

They can be peculiar about veggies; try hand feeding. I've gotten chomped once; it's really not bad at all.......although he is not full grown yet. No need to worry though;

 

[Draeju's_world]

No worries...lol. Avid fisherman so no stranger to putting my fingers/hand in much larger, snappier mouths. I feed him with my fingers from time to time though the forceps do make quick work of feeding small items like black fly larvae or small pellets, etc..and i can wiggle greens with it to try to get his interest.

 

[Phunmusicphan]

I tare kale into pieces smaller than his head. I put them in the tank in the morning. Sometimes he eats them sometimes he doesn't. Try smaller pieces with your roach trick. Might get more in his belly.

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[Lasen72]

I really don't have any trouble getting mine to eat his veggies. I cut mine into much smaller pieces also. And just recently started chopping them in a small blender, I use mustard greens, green bell peppers and strawberries, that way I can store in ziplock bag for longer and saves a lot of time. It also keeps the veggies pretty wet and if I have trouble getting him to drink, I'll spray it with water to make sure he's getting hydrated while eating.