Re: thoughts

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Posted by Morgan on April 06, 2000 at 08:14:33:

In Reply to: thoughts posted by phantoms on April 06, 2000 at 00:01:13:

Thanks for your thoughts. Hopefully the Trevo worms will help. I may try some various baby foods and see if he's interested. The problem is that vegetable matter is a very small portion of a WD's diet.

BTW - the whole mealworm/Superworm eating it's way out of the lizard's stomach is an urban herp myth. Lizards chew their food for one thing, and secondly, the digestive juices work pretty quickly (if you've ever had a reptile regurgitate within 1/2 hour of eating, you know what I mean!).

Thanks again!

: mix some other items in with the mealworms, or if he looks healthy and fat let him go a day or 2 and put some new food items in there. if hungry he won't be too picky. just some thought on how to get them to eat other things. for my iggy mixing veggies with stuff he already liked always worked. if you are worried about enough vitamins and things in your mealworms try feeding them some veggies that are high in calcium and such. anyways the reason that i started this message was just to add a warning about super mealworms. i have recently learned (not through personal experience) that if temps aren't hot (or sometimes not for that reason) that the mealworms can eat an animal from the inside out or do damabe in the stomach and intestines. for my monitor i pinch the heads off/crush the heads.

Little Lizard

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: Thanks for your thoughts. Hopefully the Trevo worms will help. I may try some various baby foods and see if he's interested. The problem is that vegetable matter is a very small portion of a WD's diet. : BTW - the whole mealworm/Superworm eating it's way out of the lizard's stomach is an urban herp myth. Lizards chew their food for one thing, and secondly, the digestive juices work pretty quickly (if you've ever had a reptile regurgitate within 1/2 hour of eating, you know what I mean!). : Thanks again! : : mix some other items in with the mealworms, or if he looks healthy and fat let him go a day or 2 and put some new food items in there. if hungry he won't be too picky. just some thought on how to get them to eat other things. for my iggy mixing veggies with stuff he already liked always worked. if you are worried about enough vitamins and things in your mealworms try feeding them some veggies that are high in calcium and such. anyways the reason that i started this message was just to add a warning about super mealworms. i have recently learned (not through personal experience) that if temps aren't hot (or sometimes not for that reason) that the mealworms can eat an animal from the inside out or do damabe in the stomach and intestines. for my monitor i pinch the heads off/crush the heads.

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