Hi everyone! I made a pretty big mistake spoiling my bearded dragon with mostly insects and rare veggies as he grew up. Now he will only accept super worms and nothing else. I've tried a variety of foods, and he doesn't want anything to do with it. As for some I have tried, I've done mustard greens, collard greens, peas, green beans, carrots, turnip greens, kale, spinach, etc. All being the same result, which is they sit in the tank in his food bowl and never get eaten. I'll offer it to him multiple times a day, and he won't touch it. I'm scared to not offer bugs, because he will end up starving himself over eating any greens. I'm at the end of my rope here and i'm so worried about him. But I will also say as of recently, he has had pin worms and has been recovering from them for about a month now and an infection that the pinworms left after. That coupled with the matter of him possibly brumating? I apologize if this has come off very unorganized or frantic, but my vet did very little in terms of helping me get him to accept anything besides worms and the worry is overwhelming. ( I've also tried some fruit toppings to maybe coax him, as well as putting wax worms on top to maybe bring him over with the movement, both did not work. )
Though this may just be from him brumating and not wanting to change his diet as of right now, i'm still overly worried and want to make sure my bearded dragon is getting what he needs.
Right now his diet is pretty much 100% insects still at around 9 months.
Though this may just be from him brumating and not wanting to change his diet as of right now, i'm still overly worried and want to make sure my bearded dragon is getting what he needs.
Right now his diet is pretty much 100% insects still at around 9 months.