cut it into a slender strip, the white color looks like a soft juicy mealworm, yummy... That usually works, and every one of mine love squash. Once they try it and if they like it, they will usually eat the "mealworms" from a nice bed of salad, which will soon start to disappear too.
- The other thing to try is if he gets a little to warm and has his mouth open, stick a leaf in it =0) He'll either chew it up and swallow it, or spit it out.
Gail in Nova Scotia
I have only been a dragon slave for two months now, and I received a beautiful healthy baby from Reptile Rascals and she has been great. During her first week when she was adjusting to her new palace and was reluctant to feed, I tried a " veggie clip" and that was the first thing that worked . It is available at any aquarium shop and is just a strong clip attached to a suction cup. The clip holds the greens and I stuck it to the side of the tank right by her favorite basking spot. Within a few hours she was tugging happily at her greens. She still enjoys tearing pieces off her clip, even though she has a wonderful appetite and eats from her salad bowl too.
Jenn, with her usual high-quality advice: I just thought I would share this as no one has mentioned it before and maybe it will help those of you with reluctant feeders. Make the salads really small at first so you don't waste so much. Eating just a bit at first is normal. Remember if your grocery store sells greens by the pound, you do *not* have to buy the whole bunched up thing! If its sold by the pound, you can just get a few leaves. No point paying for all that stuff if you only need half of it. Shake the water off too, water weighs a lot when buying greens.
..try some dandelion leaves with her. Draco and Jas go nuts on those things *G* Especially if you hang them from the top of the cage and then hit them with a fan so they sway in the wind. Ooooooooo movement it must be food :)