There could be a way to increase her weight naturally.

I have a big female that is eating lots of well feeded crickets.



I mean, the more you feed your crix, the fatter you lizard will get.



I personnaly feed my crickets the following greens and good regulary regular dusting wth calcium.



- Green lettuce (Crix prefer Roman to Iceberg)

- Frozen Strawberry tips (5 pounds of strawberry gave me 3 ziplock bags of green tips and strawberry remains)

- Bee pollen

- Carrots peelings

- Potatoes peelings

- Apple peelings

- Oat



Less often

- Hemp seeds (Omega 3 & 6)

- Avocado peelings



So, this way, all goods that lizards don't eat are ingested and transformed by insect metabolism.

I prefer this way of stuffing to powder supplements ... my lizard seems to prefer it too!





BIG Sara before brumation, Christmas 2004

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Sara - Female Eastern Collared (Orange phase!)

30 X 16 X 12 enclosure

Full carpet

UVB 8.0

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• HELP I am worried about my girl! - Crotaphytusman, Wed Mar 16 09:44:17 2005
• RE: HELP I am worried about my girl! - jeune18, Wed Mar 16 10:46:20 2005
• Feeding crickets - xelabou, Wed Mar 16 11:00:01 2005
• Feeding crickets and Parasites - Crotaphytusman, Wed Mar 16 11:45:21 2005
• RE: They can get parasites from crickets, and pinkies - PHEve, Wed Mar 16 22:26:03 2005
• RE: They can get parasites from crickets, and pinkies - Crotaphytusman, Thu Mar 17 09:47:59 2005
• RE: If you have NEVER had her wormed then I would> - PHEve, Thu Mar 17 11:39:11 2005
• RE: If you have NEVER had her wormed then I would> - Crotaphytusman, Fri Mar 18 12:57:16 2005
• hemp seeds huh, lol..n/m - sledge, Wed Mar 16 21:55:39 2005
• RE: hemp seeds huh, lol..n/m - xelabou, Thu Mar 17 08:13:20 2005
• I've seen my share of hemp seeds... - johne, Thu Mar 17 09:16:16 2005
• RE: I've seen my share of hemp seeds... - xelabou, Fri Mar 18 13:37:30 2005
• RE: :0) She sure is BIG Sara :0) Geesh she looks - PHEve, Wed Mar 16 22:28:44 2005