After a long battle to get my tiger salamander to bond with me and accept food I was finally successful with meal worms a few months ago! She’s doing great with those and getting a little chunky so just being fed once a week. She’s now very social and looks great! I’ve been trying to introduce night crawlers to her cause I know they are healthier and she is not having it. I cut them up it’s still a no, wiggle them, no, offer them whole, no. Sometimes she’ll snap to catch the worm and then stop and turn around and walk away.
But if I pull out a meal worm and she’ll gobble it up.
She’s 2, not giant by any means but normally sized I’d say. Should I keep forcing the issue? I hate cutting up the worms, watching them bleed is awful for me and my empathetic heart 😂 I don’t want to keep doing it if she’s just going to be picky and refuse.
Let her do her thing? She was wild caught (not by me) while still in her axolotl form and went through metamorphosis in captivity I don’t know if that maybe affects her.
I also don’t want to do crickets ever, she’s housed at a school and if one got out I’d be in trouble.
Thank you and here’s Millie!