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My 8 month old girl 15 inches long wont eat her veggies knw Ive tried things with good color and scent like mang squash and others.Her basking temps are 110 80 cool end 65 at night she gets multivitamins/calcium on agood basis and crickets/silkworms/some mealies as much as she will eat in ten minutes.I have a picture of her from a couple months ago and she was showing her red gold(she is a red gold x normal.Now she is mostly black she is warm enough

Thanks for all help

try hand feeding, try feeding veggies after lights on in the morning and nothing else until late in the day. put a worm or two in the salad to get her to the bowl and maybe she'll get salad by accident. if all else fails, no live prey foe a couple of days,, only salad.
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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com

Does she stay black all of the time? That can be a sign of stress. Can you tell us about her set up, temps, UVB, etc? I used to have to put silkworms in Fuego's salad to get him to eat it. You may want to try them. I like them better than crickets. They do not jump out of the bowl!
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Stacey

110basking 80cool side she does get uvb she just started not eating veggies Iv tried silkworms crickets and meal worms in the salad Its just really weird if you read my question I answered many of yo guys questions there

But I have some that I hatched that noone else could screw them up for me and they eat dark greens, crickets, superworms, roaches, acorn squash, carrots, etc etc right from either the 2nd day out of the eggs or the third day. I think so many only offer crickets after a week or so, but mine eat the first day out of the incubator (I leave them in 24 hours to solidify their skeleton etc, they usually eat right afterwards). Of course my big female is just over a year old and is 500 grams and lays 20-21 eggs every 3-4 weeks, but she wouldnt touch greens until around 4 or so months old. I like to offer food etc right away, it aclimatizes them.

I know my big ole beardie love to munch on purslane and hibiscus flowers. I had a problem in his younger days getting him on the greens. i just mixed in flowers of various colors. After 7 years of munching, i now know that he prefers yellow. Good luck.
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Krazy-K
1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
0.2 Thayeri Kingsnakes
1 B. Rainbow Boa
1.0 Bearded Dragon
2.0 Leopard Geckos

Your bearded dragon is dark only recently? Has she ever eat greens or just lately stopped? Is she starting to shed? Is she eating insects still or has she slowed down or stopped that too?

The dark colouration is typically a sign of stress or something is bothering her. How is her activity otherwise? Is she pooing regularly? If so, what is its consistency? (ie solid brown mass, or runny?) If runny or more smelly than normal, I would get a fecal done to check for parasites. A load of parasites could reduce her appetite.