My veiled hasn't been eating as much...

[Ashleyth87]

I use to feed my male veiled 7 to 9 large crickets a day and a few worms, either small to medium horn worms or super worms, along with some greens or berries which he never touched but I gave him the option. And yes, all the supplements, every day calcium, calcium w d3 and multivitamin every other week. I now only change out his greens and berries every day and feed him every other day because it takes him two days to eat what I've given him and he seems less interested in the worms. Because he's been eating less the hornworms have become gigantic and I think he's lost interest in them because of their size. He seems happy and healthy still and this has been going on for the past two weeks. Do you think he's just getting older and doesn't need as much because his growth rate has slowed down. Any suggestion on getting him to eat his greens?

 

[Ashleyth87]

This is the guy in question, pretty happy and harty looking so I'm not too concerned I just want to know if this is normal behavior, he's about 9 months I believe.

 

[brownie64]

They slow down in their consumption after the reach adulthood. Unless he has slowed down a great deal I don't think you have much to worry about. If you are truly concerned just weigh him, and check back in a couple of weeks, or a month. If he hasn't loss twenty percent or more of his weight you are fine as long as the next time you weigh him he has gained it back.

 

[alphakenc]

Any suggestion on getting him to eat his greens?

If he allow you to hand feed him crickets,maybe you can also put a small piece of collard green in his mouth while he chewing on his cricket,see if he like it,not force but encouraging.
The most important thing is Gutloading all your feeders prior feeding them whithin hours of time to ur cham,this way he can still absorbing the green nutrition indirectly.

 

[Ashleyth87]

He's not down with hand feeding but I continue to feed the crickets greens and berries with calcium. I'll give it another shot though. In the mean time he doesn't appear unhealthy or to have lost anyway weight. I read that it's normal for them to eat less when they get older so I suspected as much.

 

[oneillchameleons]

He's not down with hand feeding but I continue to feed the crickets greens and berries with calcium. I'll give it another shot though. In the mean time he doesn't appear unhealthy or to have lost anyway weight. I read that it's normal for them to eat less when they get older so I suspected as much.

I agree he looks very healthy. They will refuse to eat from time to time. He looks like he has a good weight so, as said above, I wouldn't worry until you start to see decline in weight, or other obvious health issues.