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done everything you guys mentioned the other day and although hes pooping everyday and has a good basking spot he is still only eating about 2-3 crix a day ( 1/2 inch ) and about 3 g of salad. In desperate need of help please.

thanks

I have not read any previous threads on this, but did you ever get a fecal check up on him to see if he was clean of parasites?

Matt
BeardieKingdom.com

You might want to try giving it some small sized Superworms on a small plate or sauser. Not mealworms, but just smaller supers. Try feeding it 3 or 4 a day for a week (coat with calcium powder the same as crix), then try mixing a couple supers and a couple crickets. Cut back the supers each day and increase the crickets. Just don't let it get "hooked" on supers only. If your local petshop has supers, ask them to let you pick them yourself. If you cant get smaller ones, pick out the White freashly molted ones. They are very soft.

My dragons were always good eaters but were somewhat picky eaters when it came to some veggies and dry food. Now, after superworms a couple times a week they eat ANYTHING that is put in their dishes. All Veggies, pellets, anything and they are trained to wait to eat bugs from their dish rather than eat off of sand.

A fecal would be a good thing to get done right now. You can also try that parazap other posters here seem to love using to increase apetite and control parasites in their dragons. Do a search on 'parazap' for more information.
Personally I would take a fecal to your reptile vet and check to see if there are any parasites then if appropriate, treat your dragon for them.

You could try silkworms instead of any other worms (mealworms, wax worms or superworms) as they are much better nutrician wise than all other common insect food sources, lack the exskeletons of crickets or mealworms so are easily digested. They do however tend to make thier stools a little more runny but other than that they are great.

i weighed him today hes 56 grams. does that sound ok to you guys?