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I have a few baby bearded dragons in the 4-5 month range. Right now they are just eating crickets and veggies. I think they are small for their age, I just saw a pic of an 8 month old that was full grown! I will weigh them tonight, but only have a scale that weighs in 10ths of ozs.

Any way, I was going to start to leave a dish of meal worms or wax worms in their cages at all times in hopes of them growing quicker are meal worms still a bad idea at this age? I know that wax worms are really fatty so would a dish at all times be too many? Thanks, Jake.
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Meal worms and wax worms should never be offered as more than occaisonal treats. If you are feeding them all the crickets they can eat in 10-15 minutes, then they are getting what they need to grow. Other factors could be making a difference in their size.

4-5 month dragons can vary greatly in size depending on the size of the dragon's parents and other factors. My bearded dragon was between 12 and 14 inches long at that age and about 55 grams (I think..should have recorded her weights LOL).

One inch long silkworms can be left in with the dragons without any risk to teh dragons. Silkworms cost more than crickets but have about three times the nutricional value without adding alot of exoskeleton (like mealworms) or fat (like waxworms).

My smallest dragon in 7 inchs and weighs about 11.2g. My largest one is 9 inchs and weighs about 28g.

That is about half the size of yours, what else could I be doing wrong?

They have the uvb tube with in 12 inchs, there basking spot is between 95 and 100F. I give them all the veggies they want and feed crickets almost always twice a day (some days they only get crickets once). They all have huge bellies, they just are not growing as fast as I think they should. I guess they person who had them before me might not have been taking that good of care of them, I got them as three month olds. I am planning on upgradeing their tank size do you think that would help? Thanks for your help, Jake.
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3.1 Frilled Dragons
1.0 Adult Albino Corn
0.1.1 Normal Corns
1.1 Creamcicle Corns
0.0.1 Crimson Corn
0.3 Normal Leopard geckos
1.0 High Yellow Leo
1.2 Albino Leos
0.0.7 Baby Bearded Dragons
0.1 Sub-adult Bearded Dragon
1.3 Adult Bearded Dragons (coming Tuesday )
0.0.4 D. Leucomelas