[0zwald]

HELP , she wont eat crickets anymore.. please help.. is there any way to get her off waxworms?? PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE!!!!!!

[loveleos]

As for what you can do. Its gonna be hard on your part but STOP with the wax worms. cut her off cold turkey. She may not eat for a bit but once she's hungry enough she WILL eat. Shes not stupid she knows he has to eat to live. She wont starve herself forever. This will be about 2 weeks 3 tops. I know it sounds cruel to cut her off but its for her own good. Remeber that waxxies are addicting there like ciggerates and beer to us. He needs his addiction broken before his growth is stunted or her puts on far to much weight.

Good Luck x

[xKizzax]

my youngest leo got addicted to them, and he out rightly refused to eat anything else, i didnt put any food in at all for about a week and a half and brought him some small hoppers instead of crickets, he didnt want to know at first but you could see he was hungry, and eventually he started to stalk it, now he's fine and eating what he's given lol it does seem cruel to starve them but its like feeding a child a chocolate bar for every meal, they do learn and they are fine, if theyre hungry they will eat what theyre given :-)

[YorkshireLass]

I think waxworms should come with a warning, my Freddie became addicted about 4 years ago and he absolutely refused to eat anything but them.
He then became very ill and ended up with a tumour on the inside of his mouth. The vet was never sure if it was connected or not but we had to administer anti-biotics into the base of his tail for a week and thankfully the tumour started to go, BUT he then refused to eat completely. So we had to force feed him a special mixture of all the things he needs using a syringe. I'll never know how he survived, it was a terrible month for him, but eventually we tempted him with his favourite, locusts, and now, 4 years on, he's still alive fit as a fiddle, nearly 10 years old and loves crickets and locusts.

[0zwald]

thanks guys, shes still not eating crickets, but the meal worms are always going and shes leaving droppings, ill soon try lucusts or something bigger than the odd crickets. X

[loveleos]

Yeah i would definatly try the locusts they do love them, but the only thing with locust is that you will have a big problem weaning her off of them. But it does work x

[YorkshireLass]

That's why Freddie only has Locusts as a treat aswell. Keep on persevering Ozwald, you will get there, eventually, even if you have to be cruel to be kind and starve her.