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My beardie is about 9 inches now and eats like a freakin machine, probably around 60 crickets a day, 5 mealworms, and a good amount of veggies. He really is pretty fat, can they get Too fat tho ?
His stomach practically drags on the ground when he walks.
Obeisity in reptiles is definately a bigger problem than a lot of people think, its hard because there is no set weight for a dragon.
my opinion, and its only my opinion, is that generally beardies will slow their eating as they get older. If you make sure to feed them healthy food items, slow off on the crickets and increase the greens as they age, and avoid heavily fatty foods such as waxworms and pinkies then they will be ok. I think the biggest problem is when people feed high fat foods to their beardies, or when beardies wont eat veggies and only eat protein their whole life. This is similar to a person who eats lots of macdonalds (waxworms, and pinkies) and waaaay to much fatty meat the rest of the time. Juvi beardies need the protien to grow, so as long as you steadily make the change to greens as they age eating tons of crickets when they are younger isnt as big of a deal.
anyone have any better imput? im interested to hear more on it...
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Eating food items that are too fatty can cause liver and kidney damage or even failure. Which can lead to death. He put it very well. lay off the fatty items except for a treat or breeding females to put weight back on. Adults in the wild eat a huge amount of plant matter. crickets arent to high in fat though. Also make sure your dragon is getting the right vitamin and mineral supplements and proper uvb to process the calcium and vitamin d3. Also as many people know too large of a prey item can cause hind leg paralisis(dont remember exact term) which can kill your dragon as well. So feed smaller prey. Hopefully this helps.
peace,
nathan
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