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PHLdyPayne
at Thu Feb 11 13:30:06 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
Personally I don't think offering an 'all dry' pellet diet is the best way to go. As they are 'dry' it means alot of the moisture a dragon would normal get from fresh greens and insects will be missing in his diet. Though soaking once or twice a week can help encourage them to drink, not all dragons will even drink from a bath or even a water dish left in the cage.
Most dragons will drink when water is given to them via an eye dropper or similar method but this does get tedious to have to do every day to ensure adequate hydration.
Pellets certainly can be a great addition to a dragon's diet, if served sprinkled on fresh greens but in my view, offering just pellets should only be a method used if fresh greens and insects are extremely hard to come by in your area. Though with so many online stores, its very easy to order seeds and grow your own fresh greens (ie mustard greens, collard greens, etc can easily be bought in seed form and a small 'garden' grown in a corner of one's home or basement. Or even outside if you have a normal garden, or just in a long flower pot.)
Though I can't remember the actual brand name, the multicolored pebble like pellets seem to be eaten more readily by dragons, either stimulated by the colors or smell of them. I definitely know the plain greenish 'rabbit pellets' like dry food are not accepted by my dragons at all. Though when soaked in a bit of water, they make a great cricket food.
For baby dragons such as you have, its best to just feed appropriate sized well gut loaded crickets. Crickets are the cheapest and easily obtained food source for fast growing baby dragons. That and some fresh greens to get them started on eating greens early.
I have also tried other forms of processed foods with my dragon and skinks, but none are eaten with the same enthusiasm as fresh greens. The canned insects are more easily accepted though but given the cost of a single can, its cheaper to buy live insects.
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PHLdyPayne
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- dry food training - lykarok, Wed Feb 10 15:06:00 2010
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