Star_Cameron
Not so new Member
Hey all,
Just looking for a little advice regarding fruit and vegetable matter
My beardie is (I think) 11 months old, could be a couple of months older. He's grown a lot since I first got him, eats his crickets well (somewhere between 15-30 per day at the moment) and drinks water really well also. I dust his crickets weekly with a vitamin powder, and second daily with calcium powder. I'm currently putting him in a decent sized fish tank to feed him his crickets, he has no issue hunting them down. All of that seems fine to me, and is going well - but let me know if you think I should change anything .
As far as greens go, all he is eating is 2 or 3 mouth fulls of bok choy a day - which I supply plenty of, fresh, daily, in his tank all day, and here is where all the questions come. Is my beardie still at the stage where crickets make up most of his diet, and a small amount of greens is fine, or should he be eating more at this point? If so, how could I get him to eat more?
Also, bok choy is the only vegetable/fruit I've had any success with. I've tried kale, carrot, apple, blackberries, raspberries, mushroom and capsicum, and I don't think he tried any of that stuff. At one point I had a dish of bok choy and kale in his enclosure and he literally picked out every piece of bok choy, and none of the kale. Ideally I would like him to have a more varied diet than just bok choy, so what are some other things that might be good to try (should I revisit some of the other things I've tried previously?), and any suggestions for how to get him to try new things?
Thanks for all of your help
edit:
Oh and also, I know you can buy that reptile worming stuff from pet shops, is that something I need to do? If so when/how? The guy at the pet shop said he injects it into a defrosted pinky mouse and gives it that way, but there is no way my beardie is anywhere close to eating that,
Just looking for a little advice regarding fruit and vegetable matter
My beardie is (I think) 11 months old, could be a couple of months older. He's grown a lot since I first got him, eats his crickets well (somewhere between 15-30 per day at the moment) and drinks water really well also. I dust his crickets weekly with a vitamin powder, and second daily with calcium powder. I'm currently putting him in a decent sized fish tank to feed him his crickets, he has no issue hunting them down. All of that seems fine to me, and is going well - but let me know if you think I should change anything .
As far as greens go, all he is eating is 2 or 3 mouth fulls of bok choy a day - which I supply plenty of, fresh, daily, in his tank all day, and here is where all the questions come. Is my beardie still at the stage where crickets make up most of his diet, and a small amount of greens is fine, or should he be eating more at this point? If so, how could I get him to eat more?
Also, bok choy is the only vegetable/fruit I've had any success with. I've tried kale, carrot, apple, blackberries, raspberries, mushroom and capsicum, and I don't think he tried any of that stuff. At one point I had a dish of bok choy and kale in his enclosure and he literally picked out every piece of bok choy, and none of the kale. Ideally I would like him to have a more varied diet than just bok choy, so what are some other things that might be good to try (should I revisit some of the other things I've tried previously?), and any suggestions for how to get him to try new things?
Thanks for all of your help
edit:
Oh and also, I know you can buy that reptile worming stuff from pet shops, is that something I need to do? If so when/how? The guy at the pet shop said he injects it into a defrosted pinky mouse and gives it that way, but there is no way my beardie is anywhere close to eating that,