Alright can we all come down, my vet said in his own personal opinion and from what hes learned from keeping his reptiels and what he has read that he doesn't liek cricktets. I was just as sceptical as you i was like everything i've read is saying supplement and crickets and he responded with, a.) kingworms, or mealworms are better for the bearded dragon than crickets but nevertheless they should be fed sparingly and that if i feed the right foods that he should be able to get all his vitamins and calcium from the greens. I feed my dragon, endive, escarloe, bok choi (on occasion), raspberries, mango, papaya, and some romaine lettuce. He DID NOT tell me to feed romaine lettuce as a staple he simply said that, alot of people get down on romaine lettuce but it does have a lot of good vitamins and minerals, and he even went as far to say that yes collards and mustard greens are way more loaded with vitamins and minerals then romaine but that romaine isn't somthing terrible to feed. He said i should view feeding crickets and mealworms and kingworms as like having desert after dinner. That my dragon should be eating all these good greens than like once a week or once every 2 weeks through in some crickets or mealworms or whatever to give the bearded some exerice and have fun wathicng him catch them but not to think that they are something really important to feed. And yes he does have experience with beardies and repitles for everyone that is saying that he may know something but he may only see a reptile every once in a while, i know people that bring the beardies to him and the day i went and saw him he just got done preforming surgery on one of them for sand impaction.

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