Whatever the situation, the solution is more or less the same: remove familiar foods from your dragon’s routine and offer other things until your dragon gets hungry enough to consider alternative possibilities. When your dragon eats the same handful of foods every time, eventually it’s likely to develop a nutritional deficiency. The other possibility is that your dragon is so used to getting the same old thing every day that it has lost interest in eating.Įither way, limited diet is a problem because variety is necessary to balanced nutrition. Or, it may be so used to what’s familiar that it doesn’t find other foods palatable. If you’ve been feeding your dragon the same crickets and superworms from the pet store and collard greens and spring mix from the grocery store, one of two things is likely to happen:įirst, your dragon may get so used to eating these foods that it doesn’t recognize anything else as food. If you still crave that kind of interaction with your bearded dragon, try hand-feeding your dragon rather than offering their food in a bowl! Limited DietĪlternatively, maybe the problem is that your bearded dragon’s diet has stagnated. Exercising more self-control in this aspect will also help guard against tooth decay, obesity, and organ dysfunction. Keep the treats to a minimum in order to maintain your dragon’s interest in foods that are lower in fat and/or sugar. However, if your dragon is used to getting lots of high-fat and/or high-sugar treats on a regular basis, they can quickly lose their taste for normal, healthier foods - just like you’d probably rather have chocolate and bacon all the time, but they’re still not very good for you. It’s always fun to give treats to our pets! Bearded dragons always look so happy when going after superworms or demolishing a strawberry. Proportions are important! Hatchlings should have 60-80% as insects, 60% for juveniles, and just 15% for most adults, unless you have a female that is working on eggs or recovering from laying them. Even if you are feeding your bearded dragon on an appropriate schedule for their age, if you offer too many bugs per feeding, it’s possible that your bearded dragon simply isn’t hungry for salad. Occasionally skipping a feeding, whether that’s salad, insects, or both, can also help keep your dragon motivated to eat. This should help your dragon feel more hungry when mealtime comes around.
If overfeeding is your problem, the easiest solution is to correct your feeding schedule.
In other words, if they want to survive, they have to eat what’s available. It’s an evolutionary survival mechanism: In the wild, food is hard to find, so a bearded dragon that is picky about what to put in their stomach is more likely to starve to death. A hungry reptile isn’t a picky reptile, you see. If you’re feeding your bearded dragon more than outlined above, it’s possible that you’re feeding them too much. Adults (12+ months old): Insects 1-2x/week, vegetables daily.Juveniles (6-12 months): Insects 1x/day, vegetables daily.Hatchlings (0-6 months old): Insects 2x/day, vegetables daily.How often do you feed your bearded dragon? Does it look like this? Does your bearded dragon seem to insist on eating the same handful of foods, ignoring everything else? If this is the case, you’re probably feeling worried and frustrated.
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