Quote Originally Posted by DVirginiana View Post
Alright, that's pretty close to what I've been giving her. About half the time she won't take food unless I aggravate her enough to snap at it so I've been trying to figure out a sort of 'minimum' of what I need to get into her to give her the right nutrition so I don't stress her any more than I have to. I hate having to annoy her into eating, but it's better than getting to the point I have to force feed. I've only done that once, and it's not something I want to repeat.

Good point, I guess they wouldn't be that different than insects nutritionally... I was thinking of how I have to feed my snakes about three times as often if they're on nightcrawlers, but that's compared to mice or fish.
Yeah worms are much less dense because of the lack of dense muscle and bone so they digest much faster plus their flesh isn't the same as mammals and fish.

Teasing her to get her to eat isn't really stressful. Eventually she may learn. She can live on 1 Per night or every other night since she's an adult, but if she will take more it won't hurt. Earthworms and Night Crawlers are very nutritious and have a good calcium/phosphorous balance, but dusting is still required for them to get more benefit due to the worms lacking bones to supplement calcium in the diet.