How Often Can I Feed My CWD Pinkies?

YankeeChops · #1 (**permalink**) 06-30-2008, 01:21 PM

I have a 5yo Female CWD (~21 inches). She seems very bored with her current diet of crickets and salad, so I am trying to make every attempt to change her diet and spice things up a bit. I have been offering crickets in a feeding dish everyday, but she very rarely goes for them and I end up removing them.

I fed her her very first pinky last Wednesday and she devoured it! I also offered her a nice chunky earthwrm a couple days ago and she ate that right up-- I did try and offer her another, but she showed no interest in eating another earthworm.

My main question is, how often can I feed her pinkies? Will regular pinkie feedings (1 per week say) make her picky and deny other food items like her salad and crickets?

I have just ordered some butterworms and Large Black crickets, for variety. Hopefully these new prey items will interest her. I'd also like to purchase some silkworms. No sure what size to buy though or where is a good supplier of these. Anyone familiar with Muberry Farms?

What do you guys think about the pinkies? Suggestions much appreciated! Thank you!

-Morgan

froggsong · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2008, 03:31 PM

Have you checked out Tricia's water dragon site? She gives alot of excellent advice on their care. Another thing to consider is: what was the dragon eating before you got her? You are right though that she needs a varied diet.

Here's the link to the diet specific page of her site: The diet of Chinese water dragons (lizard, insect, cricket, meal worm, earthworm, pinkie, fuzzie, fish, vitamin, mineral, calcium)

She gives an example of what she feeds her dragons at the bottom, so I hope this helps. You should probably be feeding your dragon mice larger than pinkies, they don't have as much calcium, and she looks large enough to eat bigger ones. To vary the portion of her diet that is whole prey, you can offer chicks, mice, gerbils, fish (less fish than other whole prey though), and small lizards like anoles. Any of these things should follow the size guidelines given on Tricia's page. Good Luck!