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My dragon, Chubbs, is almost 2 years old now. I'm wondering what you all feed your dragon as they get older. She gets a good helping of crickets and has veggies available every day. But I'm just wondering if I should still be giving her as many crickets as she'll eat or not. Also what other staple can she have besides crix?

I feed my adult breeding females greens dusted with t-rex dragon vgf dust...my males and non breeding adultd females get greens dusted with t-rex VMFdust. My adults get superworms 3-4 times a week and crix about once every 2 weeks. The dusted greens are really the staple diet in my case.

good luck

>>My dragon, Chubbs, is almost 2 years old now. I'm wondering what you all feed your dragon as they get older. She gets a good helping of crickets and has veggies available every day. But I'm just wondering if I should still be giving her as many crickets as she'll eat or not. Also what other staple can she have besides crix?
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Bill DiFabio
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"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung

how many superworms do you give a single dragon per feeding? and then how many crickets are you giving each week?

It really depends on the dragon. On average, my breeding females eat about 15-20 supers each per feeding. My males and non breeding females about 10-15 supers each per feeding. The crix I feed about every two weeks, sometimes less than that. I couldn't even tell you how many they eat. I just buy a box of 1000 3/4 inch and feed the whole thing out to the dragons.
good luck

>>how many superworms do you give a single dragon per feeding? and then how many crickets are you giving each week?
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Bill DiFabio
Garden State Herpetoculture...website to follow...
Email Me
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong." - Carl Jung

mainly because my bearded dragon Sydney was spoiled with too many crickets (I'll explain later), and he's still got parasite problems because the crappy vet i took him to before didn't give him enough of whatever they injected him with. i think it was ivermectin, which I don't like anyways because of how dangerous it is. Now I'm back going to his regular vet, so I'm going to bring a fecal to them, which I'm pretty sure will still be positive, and get some good old panacur. I'm going to completely take the cage apart this time though and have it setup pretty much sterile (any tips?).

But, to my surprise, I think he may have eaten a bite or two of veggies today. My plan right now is that I'm limiting his cricket intake to 10 crickets every other day in hopes that I can lower that even more or make it every third day or something, and get greens to be his staple. Even better would be if I could get him eating repcal pellets too so that I would only have to feed him crickets once every week or two. that would be ideal, but he's very picky so I'm not sure how that will work.

But seriously, that vet I took him too a couple of times, which I thought was a good vet, didn't really know anything about my bearded dragon or my mali uro. I had blood work run on my dragon there, which was overpriced, and they told me he had MBD, but I couldn't find the stuff they prescribed so I just dusted his food more frequently. Got a blood calcium test done at the better vet (which I am taking both my animals to now) and they found that he now has a little too much, so I've got to lower dusting down again. All and all, from talking to both the vets, the one I am going to stick with now is a much better bet overall.

Anyways, went off on a tangent there as I usually do. just so caught up in all this ya know?

good luck. Basically an adult bearded should have between 60% and 80% of their diet made up of good quality salad. Too much protien will cause kidney disease when the dragon starts getting older. Just try to keep the amount of crickets you give your dragon down a little. You should get the hang of it quick. It's just all about balancing the diet out right.