Good size for 6 month old?

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Hi, Donny is now around 6 months old, 15-16 inches long (don’t know weight). This photo was taken last week, I have since upped his bugs slightly as I thought he (or she) looked a little underweight?

He is in a 4ft x 2ft x 2ft viv, and will be in a bigger one in the next year. There are 2 UV tube lights, one 10% one 2% and a 100W heat lamp. Temps under the basking spot range from 35-45, warm end 30, cool area 25-27. Substrate is Exo Terra sand mats or newspaper but hoping to switch to tile (any recommendations would be great).

Meals are twice a day, usually 25-30 calci worms with the odd mealworm in the morning. In the afternoon, 15-20 calci worms, 5-6 medium dubias and then either 12-15 medium crickets or 6 crickets + 6 locusts. I dust all of these with calcium and vitamin powder 5 times a week, and they are offered potato, orange occasionally, and then any greens or veg I put in his salad.

Salad wise he is still not great at eating it, I hand feed him some of it which he will eat (particularly fruit) but there is fresh offered every day. A mixture of spring greens, kale/rocket, carrot, squash and tomatoes a few times a week, cucumber occasionally for hydration and then grapes on a few days. A water bowl is also in the viv and changed daily.

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MarlowAndMe

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I’m not experienced at all as I’m on my first dragon , but he looks good - the viv is a decent size , he’s longer than my boy ( Marlow is 14” at 10months old )
I’ve seen others saying head shape sunken in etc can be a sign of underweight so maybe pop a photo up of his face and head too incase someone with more experience comes along :)

Other than that the calcium is 5times a week and the vitamins are only 2times a week ( on the days you don’t do calcium) the temps are good except don’t let the basking be over 43c maximum - any more than that can cause burns. 40-41c is the ideal for a young beardie of his age
At 6months of age he’s still got time to get used to eating more vege so I would just keep going as you are but restrict the fruit to only 2 x a week max
Included a pic of my 10month old 14” for your comparison
(He was shedding in this pic)
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lgracethompson94

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Hi thanks for replying, I’ve changed his calcium / vitamin days to what you suggested.

Here is some pics of his head/face
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