Maybe you misunderstood your breeder friend. Usually the norm is smaller beardies need a higher temperature to digest all the food they are supposed to be eating. Most responses I've seen from the numerous, experienced experts in this forum say a baby (or even real small due to lack of care) should have basking temps at 110-115. Keep them where you have them and your beardie will continue to only eat one med cricket until it dies either from impaction or lack of nutrition.



How long have you trusted your friends advice on temp? How many beardies have you had die from too big of a cricket? You are going to have to trust the people here when they give you advice.



If you are skeptical of an answer find all the care sheets you can find on beardies, look for your topic and use the advice that is most common. I'm sure you will find 99.99% of advice on size of crickets and temperatures for small beardies will be the same as what you have been given in your last post.



Go ahead and try something else to see if it works but learning a lesson by having an animal suffer a long, painful death and then feeling horrible because you didn't listen is a hard road.



Get a digital thermometer if you don't have one (the round one's are no good) and try raising the basking temps. Make sure you get crickets smaller than the width between it's eyes. Will it really be that difficult to try for a few days and see if that helps?



If you can't afford a digital thermometer I'll send you one. Email me direct. Now, is that enough to convince you these people know what they're talking about?
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Rob

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