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I posted about this earlier, only got one post, so I figured I’d try again. My 4 month old Beardie is currently in a 36”L X 18”D X 15”H glass tank, but by the time he reaches about full size I plan on moving him into a 48”L X 24-30”D X 48”H home made, wood frame w/ glass sliding door. I’d prefer it if I didn’t have to use crix in the enclosure. I was wondering what other types of food I could use to replace crix. I don’t plan on doing this until he is full grown so the meat won’t be such a large portion of his diet. I know silkworms are the best, but is there anything else that’ll work and still meet his nutritional needs?

Thanks,

Joe

When he is older and better able to digest harder shell prey, superworms, grasshoppers, horn worms and goliath worms can be added to his diet. Now you can also add pellets to his diet, we use rep-cal, comes in a juvie and adult formula. Just moisten and add to his greens/veggies or in a separate bowl/plate

As he grows older, his main diet will lean more towards greens and veggies. To avoud hassels with crickets in an enclosure, you can fed him in a tub, another small glass tank or a reptarium, we have changed over to feeding all of our babies like this. Much easier to feed and cleanup after and we can get a more accurate idea of how many they are eating, while not have to worry about hiding crickets coming out to nibble on sleeping dragons.

Another big advantage to this is the dragons become use to being handled daily and they look forward to a trip to the other tank. All I have to do is walk by them with the reptarium and they start daning at the glass in their enclosures. You also avoid the problem of crickets picking up trace feces or urates and the dragon re-ingesting them along with the crickets.

Baby in his feeding reptarium (costs $22)

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What I do for the feeding of crickets is I put a polished metal dog bowl in the enclosure, right next to their wooden log to assure easy access, and put the crickets in there. Some may get out, but it's minimal. Not as sound as the seperate enclosure method, but another option.