i feed him mainly mealworms and wax worms. he wont eat crickets unless he hasn't eaten for 3-4 days. he wont eat greens either? what else do you feed your dragons which they will actually eat? is it healthy enough to just feed him worms?
2007-02-17 01:45:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Reptiles
Feeding: You can feed crickets, mealworms, waxworms, earthworms, grasshoppers, butterworms, locusts, and possible small feeder fish. Adults can also be fed pinkie mice and kingworms. All insect prey should be gut loaded. wild caught insects are best avoided due to the risk of containing pesticides, and always avoid fireflies as they are ptentially toxic. A small amount (10-15 percent of the diet) of finely chopeed vegetables and fruit can also be offered. Try collards, dandelion, and mustard greens, sweet potato, parsnips, green beans, carrots, and yellow or orange squash. Fruits should be used in smaller quantities than vegetables; try strawberries, raspberries, mangos, papaya, figs, and cantaloupe.
Hatchlings and juveniles should be fed daily, while as a general rule adults can be fed every 2 or 3 days. The best way to determine how much to feed is to look at body condition: skinny dragons need more to eat, and chubby dragons need to be fed less.
2007-02-17 02:24:16 · answer #1 · answered by vtmaniac21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that's not healthy really, the mealworms and waxworms lack a lot of nutrients.
One of my 2 water dragons would ONLY eat mealworms. If I gave the two of them a selection of crickets and mealworms. One would only eat the mealworms, the other would eat mealworms until gone, then eat the crickets.
I read my books and learned they really need the crickets...crickets are much easier to dust with calcium and vitamins if you hadn't noticed. For some reason, they prefer crickets dusted with vitamins over plain crickets.
But they both like worms better...I call them candybars...The dragons just like them better than their main course, and would eat them all day if they could.
What I had to do was not offer them any mealworms at all until after they ate crickets. I would give them crickets. They would look up at me expectantly. For a couple days this would happen and I would break down and give them their worms which they devoured quickly.
One time I just waited until they ate the crickets. I did this for a while, then didn't offer mealworms again until after they ate crickets.
vegetables are another story. They are 100% insectivores for the first year or so. Then become 25% vegetarian later. I taught them to eat their veggies by shredding vegetables and dropping a meal worm in the shredded mix. They couldn't just nail the worm with their tongue, a bunch of veggies stuck to the dragons tongue with the worm.
hope that helps
2007-02-17 10:06:19 · answer #2 · answered by moabmusher 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Age plays a large part in their diet getting a dragon under 7 months old to eat veggies is pretty difficult. The mulched up idea stated earlier is a great idea. I will begin using that on my babies. I feed the twins Mary-Kate and Ashley allot they are about 4 months old and pretty skinny that's why they are named that. Neeko is about 14 months old and he eats most anything he prefers dusted crickets over meal worms. also spraying the dragons with electrolytes/vitamin spray is a good idea if they refuse to diet correctly. I have them in a 60gal tank with a waterfall a swimming area and dry ground with climbing sticks I put about 2 cap fulls of the liquid in the water to be absorbed by the lizards when they are swimming and sleeping under water. that took some getting used to seeing your dragon at the bottom of the swimming hole not moving just plain creepy. whatever you feed them gut load food and dust with calcium and vitamin powder. I alternate feedings with the two types of dusting's. hope this helps.
2007-02-17 11:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by lizardman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is the same way. I saw that crickets were super cheap at the store today and I was mad because I know Kai wont touch them unless I starve him and I dont want to do that.
I would guess they dont like eating the crickets because they're too fast? Kai seems to like things that only move a LITTLE bit, but wont eat anything dead. Waxies and mealies are his main diet too. I attempt to gutload my mealies to make sure he gets nutrients, but I dont think its the same with worms as it is with crickets....
2007-02-17 22:37:28 · answer #4 · answered by Sputz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like there anwsers
but some people don't get the slang term " chinees water dragons" maybe if you just said "water dragons'
2007-02-19 07:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by DRAGON 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If its a real fire breathing dragon you should look for a book called 'Dragonology' by the way if its a real fire breathing dragon feed it chicken and ocassanioly turky and slimjim for a snack
2007-02-17 10:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kitty Pie ozozoz 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋