lyanlynn
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I'm sure someone has told me very sternly a hundred times, but I'm in need of some feeding tips. I've tried the hands on, hands off, in a bowl, roaming freely, and you take your pic methods, but I don't feel my chams are eating enough. Tweety is more tolerable and will eat crickets while sitting on my finger and being held over them, but she doesn't eat very many. She use to eat four to six at a time and now I'm lucky if she'll eat two. She loves some mealworms, but won't eat them from the bowl anymore. I could hold her on my finger, put the bowl in front of her and she'd eat her fill. I tried putting a bowl in her home, tied to the side, but she completely ignored the ones I put in there. I've also put the bowl on the bottom where she can find them when she wants them, but she never wants them. Yesterday I put one in my hand at a time and held it out to her and she ate three or four. Fella doesn't like to eat while I hold him. When he lived with Tweety he ate crickets that I would let out around the cage...Tweety wouldn't go for them even when he moved out. The first time I tied the bowl to the inside of his home he ate all the worms, but now he doesn't even give them a passing glance. He definitely looks okay, but I know how much he can eat and I dunno if he's eating any of the crickets I've let roam in his home or not. He's not shy about eating while being watched and I haven't seen him go for a cricket in his new home. I know he could have the new home blues, but he seems to enjoy his new home.
Neither Tweety nor Fella seem to be depressed, or whatever the reptile equivalent may be. They walk around their homes, sit under their lights, flash warning puffs at each other if they get a peep, and just seem to be fine. They don't look skinny or anything. No sunken eyes. They just don't appear to be eating the way they once were. Is this due to getting a month or so older? I put a pot with a sand/peatmoss mixture in Tweety's home just in case she's ready to lay an egg, but she doesn't appear to have any interest in the pot. And, it does stay moist. I put dripping bottles in both homes which drip into a plant or into the sand/peatmoss pot for Tweety.
That's more like a huge update, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips/tricks for making the food more appealing. I have silk worms on their way sometime...long story...but they should come sometime.
Neither Tweety nor Fella seem to be depressed, or whatever the reptile equivalent may be. They walk around their homes, sit under their lights, flash warning puffs at each other if they get a peep, and just seem to be fine. They don't look skinny or anything. No sunken eyes. They just don't appear to be eating the way they once were. Is this due to getting a month or so older? I put a pot with a sand/peatmoss mixture in Tweety's home just in case she's ready to lay an egg, but she doesn't appear to have any interest in the pot. And, it does stay moist. I put dripping bottles in both homes which drip into a plant or into the sand/peatmoss pot for Tweety.
That's more like a huge update, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips/tricks for making the food more appealing. I have silk worms on their way sometime...long story...but they should come sometime.
