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I've been feeding this animal twice a day morning and early evening an hour after the heat/light is on and 3 hours before the heat/light is off. I'm using what is on hand or what is locally available which consists of crickets, wax worms and butter worms. He recently has regurgitated part of a butter worm meal and left a turd with partially digested butter wormin it. This is just with butter worms he is doing okay with the crickets and wax worms and I have ordered in other feeders to see what he will eat. His basking spot measured 105 degrees with a digital thermometer and the cold side at 80 degrees with an ambient room temp of 75.

I would not feed butter worms to a juvie lizard. They are super nutritious, but are somewhat hard to digest. Even adults sometimes pass them undigested. I know if at least one baby beardie that choked to death on a butterworm that came back up.

Wax worms are like candy. I don't feed them at all because the nutritional value is very low. In a growing baby, you should try to make every meal count. I feed my lizards silk worms and horn worms, and of course the bigger lizards get super worms. Mine rarely if ever get mealworms, and all get crix. You can order worms and crix on line much cheaper than you can buy them locally. Here is where I buy worms, and sometimes crix
www.mulberryfarms.com

I am in SE Texas, so I buy crix from fluker farms.

Can I ask what your temps are and how you are measuring them? Do you use a digital therm with probe, a emp gun, or a stick on therm? Where exactly do you measure your hot side/basking temps?

Temps are as stated in the previous post with a digi therm. I get feeders from Mulberry for my Beardie and have Phoenix, Silks and Horns coming in.

Those are all great feeders. The beardie can probably process those butter worms.

In what post/thread did you post your temps?

Last two sentences of the first post!

Oh! LOL! So sorry! I am rushing around this afternoon and didn't read carefully.

yeah, your temps are fine for processing, but those butter worms are tough even for bigger lizards. I won't feed them to my rehab adult lizards until they are totally impaction free and have been eating and processing food on their own for over a month. You are right to order the others, though.

Good for putting on some heft, but better left for Snackin
High in FAT
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PHEve / Eve

I stick with crickets as a primary food supply and treat with a mealworm every now and again. Wax and Butterworms are nice but high in fat, perhaps should be only used in a recuperating a tired momma collared or some collared on the skinny side.

He did look a little skinny and loosed skinned which was why I asked in aprevious post a couple days ago about size/weight/age. He has put on 2.5 grams this past week so I will move him to a less fatty diet.

I think the best and healthiest weight gain comes from good protein sources just like people. The fatty feeders might put on quick weight, but that isn't necessarily best.

Ahhh hahahahhaa, sounded funny! LMAO
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PHEve / Eve

ROFLOL! Yeah, some of mine THINK them people fingers look mighty tasty!