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Kaizen
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Well, technically, they’re...um...not in keeping with the more legislationally inclined...but...you know...
RyanBRZ
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When mine was a baby he would eat dubia nymphs all day. When he hit 8 months or so, he stopped eating them. I am not sure this is due to me introducing him to superworms, or if he just stopped liking them. If I was you I would avoid giving them 'treat' feeders to keep them on the healthy and easy to maintain dubia's.
Kaizen
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Yeah, I’m not all that worried about when they’re adults. once they’re full grown, they’ll eat what give them or go hungry. I have a male veiled who just recently started refusing roaches. He’ll eat crickets, supers and horns, but no roaches. So, I just only offered roaches for a week, and he finally gave in.
RyanBRZ
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That's where I am at now, he will take literally anything but dubia roaches. I've tried only offering roaches for 1-2 weeks but he still refused. I then tried putting like 10 dubias in a cup with 1 or 2 supers, hoping he would accidentally eat a dubia but he still avoided the roaches. I'm sure if I hold out for weeks he would eventually take one. But not sure if this would result in him going back to eating them regularly, or if I would continually need to starve him to get him to eat the roaches.
snitz427
Chameleon Enthusiast
Charlie and Walt are my anti-dubbies chams. Walt has tongue issue so i sneak a few small ones in with foods he likes, and sorta trick him into eating a few.
Charlie has decided he’s sick of bsfl and small/med dubia, but if we let a large male climb up his screen he goes for them. I guess he doesn’t realize its a dubia since it looks different. “Oh no, I don’t eat roaches. OH LOOK! A crawly crunchy thing with wings! I love those!”
My 4 mo old took to dubia right away. Silkworms are touch and go but they love dubbies.
nightanole
Chameleon Enthusiast
I adopted a 2 year old beardy that was raised off of crickets the first year and supers the second year.
Surprisingly she only took about 30-60 seconds of inspection to figure out what this new strange gray thing was.
But everyone who can get a non adult cham to eat a dubia gets a gold star in my book. You get sweaty palms with a well started bin, and a cham that just looks at you for six months wondering why you keep putting these "things" in its feeder cup.
Surprisingly she only took about 30-60 seconds of inspection to figure out what this new strange gray thing was.
But everyone who can get a non adult cham to eat a dubia gets a gold star in my book. You get sweaty palms with a well started bin, and a cham that just looks at you for six months wondering why you keep putting these "things" in its feeder cup.
