Margaret,
My female R. ciliatus relishes diced grapes. Of course I buy organic
only and skin them and then dice them into 3 mm x 3 mm cubes. I give her
apple mango, papaya, apple blueberry, as well as other assorted fruit
baby foods and she eats some of it, but the grapes she seems to like
very much. She will also eat vegetable, and vegetable meat baby foods
with gusto. Crickets, occaissional meal worms and wax worms are eaten
with gusto and I give her large moths from outdoors which she chases
around the tank while snapping her jaws at them - you can actually hear
the snap sometimes.
She has not refused to eat anything, although she does seem to prefer
certain foods over others.
One thing that I add to her fresh fruit, fruit and veggie baby foods is
pollen (from local food coop) as well as supplements.0
Come to think of it, what I have found is that if I water down
especially thick preparations of food, she usually eats more than if it
is presented as a thick goop. I usually try and have it prepared so that
the consistency is such so that if I were to angle the dish, the food
would spill out quickly. It is thinner than apple sauce, but thicker
than plain water.
Yuri
Margaret Both wrote:
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> Does anyone else have ciliatus that positively refuse fresh ripe bits of
> mashed fruit? Baby food is devoured but I have tried mango, papya,banana,
> prickly pear and a few other weird and very expensive things and they ignore
> it.
> Margaret
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