I frequently gut load my crickets with grated carrots or squash mixed with Fluker's cricket feed. I also grate squash and carrots on top of my beardie's salad. I would say my dragon eats squash or carrots 5 days a week, in relatively small amounts. The bulk of his salad are the greens, such as dandelion, collard, mustard, endive, or escarole. Crickets are fed roughly twice a week.



My dragon has a bright yellow/orange color, yet I don't know the extent that it is influenced by his diet. I feed squash and carrots not for color, but because they have lots of healthy vitamins and moisture. That and he loves to eat them, and often times he will turn his nose at a salad that doesn't have some bright yellow or orange goodies on top. I supplement with rep-cal calcium powder every cricket feeding, occasionally using rep-cal vitamin powder instead.



So far he has shown no adverse signs to this diet as far as I can tell. I've taken him to the vet who has said he is quite healthy, with the exception of some loose stools that we've attributed to parasites (now mostly treated). I've also read that excess beta carotine flushes out of the body easily, avoiding vitamin A toxicity.



Here is a picture of him, Irwin, the 3 year old male Sandfire x Yellow dragon:

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