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Do I have to feed my three year old dragon crickets, when he eats a lot of greens and zophobas? I don't like crickets, but I'll give it to him if it's necessary.

Super worms are pretty high in fat as compared to crix, but my adults get them once a week and the rest of the time they get gutloaded crix, and veggies daily. You could probably get by on supers alone but you have to be careful with fatty liver disease. No one knows how much is too much to be feeding to cause this disease so you really have to be cautious with the supers or foods high in fat. Mine really enjoy the crickets in the can that zoo med sells. If you can get them to eat these you can do away with live crix all together. Just give them a variety of different live foods to keep them interested and stimulated. Try some butter worms these are great treats for any dragon. They have double the calcium of any other feeders, which is great for expecting females.
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Mystical Dragons

If you don't want to feed crickets then add Rep Cal pellets to the veggies and cut down the Supers to 2 or 3 supers every 3 days or so. ( more for a gravid female )

Good luck.
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Joel R

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Other altneratives to crickets are silkworms, butterworms or hookworms. All are soft bodied worms that have alot of nutrician value without the high fat super worms or wax worms contain. All three worms are easy to keep and very filling (one silkworm is as much bulk and nutrician as three adult crickets).

ww.mulburyfarms.com or www.silkworms.ca both have more information about silkworms, hookworms and butterworms and their care as well as cost.

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TheClassyLizard

Err right, Hornworms. I should know better to try and post advice at 5am without any sleep due to insomina (or moon madeness, since we are coming up on a full moon..)

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TheClassyLizard