veiled won't eat crickets

oiler17 · 04-21-04, 05:51 PM

So I got a new enclosure up this weekend, I'm not sure if that's affecting it or not.. but my veiled won't seem to eat crickets anymore. He eats wax worms in a second and the same for superworms. I put 4 crickets in a cup for him, like I always have, and he's yet to eat one of them after a few days. Is this normal? What can I do to get him to eat them again? and if worse comes to worse, is there anything wrong with feeding superworms only with an occasional wax worm?

I'm open to suggestions, so feel free to give them

CDN-Cresties · 04-21-04, 05:53 PM

Try some silkworms for a while then switch over to crix, when i had a veild, that seemed to work for me. Its just a suggestion but im sure that more experienced advice will be given to you. Best of luck

dank7oo · 04-21-04, 05:57 PM

Enclosure could be a problem. Let him a while to get used to it. I would stop feeding wax worms all together until he is back on crix. They are high fat and like candy for chams. If he could all he would eat would be wax worms - LOL.

When I switched Max he ate nothing for 5 days and then all of sudden torn apart everything I put into the cage ... just an adjustment thing. Nothing to worry about for now.

Post if it gets worse (like he stops eating all together)

Jason

Collide · 04-21-04, 06:20 PM

he is most likly sich of crix one of my males ocassionaly goes on a crix strike soo i feed him mealies and other yemmies in the mean time about a week and then when the crix come back he gets all excited, I think that they get bored. just my thoughts

huhet · 04-21-04, 08:03 PM

maybe he's sick and tired of you trent. you ever think of that? have you tried hand feeding or just the cup? maybe you could try free roaming a few with that slick new cage of yours. weird how yours won't eat crickets and mine won't eat anything but. little turds they are.

oiler17 · 04-21-04, 10:55 PM

I did some FREE ROAMING today and he ate a cricket.. he wouldn't take one out of my hand earlier though. I always hand feed superworms to him. once I get some screen on the top of the cage and get 'er sealed off I'm gonig to try to go to FREE ROAMING only.