[Advice Needed] New Feeeding Schedule and Feeders?

VenusAndSaturn":a70zrh74 said:

This is what i go by for feeding,

1-4 months 3 times a day 10-20 bugs each feeding,
4-12 months twice a day 10-20 bugs each feeding,
12-20 months once a day 10-20 bugs each feeding,
And then 20+ months every other day 10-20 bugs each feeding.

For one feeding you could basically do 10 dubia roaches, 2 superworms, and 5-10 crickets. All dusted of course. And then mix it up the next feeding, like no superworms, 15 crickets, 5 dubias, 5 calci-worms. You could even do this with 12+ months, one day this, and then change it up the next feeding day. << I hate giving crickets to my beardie, I am going to order him Phoenix worms maybe next week. So right now I only have Roaches and supers, how much should I feed him ont those a day?

Daily salads in all age ranges, usually collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens daily and then the occasional blueberry, banana, or red raspberry once or twice a week in their salad. Kale is fine to give, personally i only give it occasionally and always mixed with other greens. << Yeah this will probably be the only time in a while I give him Kale, I had to basically give him superworms for him to eat just a little bit, I'm going back to add more variety to his salad, but for now, I'm just trying to get him used to eating it everyday.

As for the bug portion i usually feed crickets, calciworms, dubia roaches, and turkish roaches for staples. I recommend at least lightly dusting the calci-worms just in case, you can also use silkworms as a staple feeder. << I was actually thinking about getting Silkworms, but I heard they were hard matinence since they had to be super sanitary and they're on a stirct diet with specific foods, and BSFL/Phoenix Worms have little to none work, and rival dubia roaches, so I went with that.

As for dusting, ones below 20+ months usually 5 times a week for calcium and 2 times a week for multivitamins. And then for the 20+ month olds usually 3 times a week for calcium and once a week for multivitamins. << This was the part that kind of confused me, so thank you very much. I guess I'll do The Calci Sun-Thurs and the Multi Friday and Saturday.

As for treats i occasionally will give them hornworms, superworms or mealworms. Usually 5-10 mealworms, and then for hornworms and superworms 2-4. For mealworms i offer those once or twice a week and then with superworms and hornworms usually once a week or twice every two weeks. Hornworms can be offered a bit more than superworms can since they do have less fat and are mostly just moisture which is good for hydration in some cases but can cause diarrhea if given too many. << Alright, so I guess I could offer him 2-4 supers 2 times a week with his dubias, so for now he's going to just eat dubia's before I get him BSFL. I rather stick with supers because there's a petco right around the corner from me (they have superworms, waxworms, etc except for hornworms) and hornworms I'm going to have to order online.

A beardie could live off superworms however it would be very obese and die of health issues caused by that like fatty liver disease, and have a few other problems.<< Yeah, that's what I read on, I guess I'll feed them as occassional treats from now on.

Also you need to up his day light hours by at least two, 12 hours would be for a beardie thats burmating. Or if you want to get your beardie to go into burmation. 12 hours is basically winter and can make them go into burmation, while 14 hours would possibly stop that from happening and simulate summer time. << It's actually winter here, but the last thing I want to do is have him brumate at a young age, or get sleepy, so I'll turn on his lights an hour earlier and give him an extra hour in the night.

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KeyBlu422":v5nqq1jq said:

According to claudiusx and other beardy owners, superworms actually can be used as a staple when beardies reach adulthood. When they're still growing though, I agree with Venus that giving superworms to a growing beardy is a bad idea as you wouldn't be able to provide enough calcium without giving too much fat to the beardy. << Oh, so that's what she was talking about!
Well, he's almost there, so I'll stick with Dubia's and BSFL for now.


Also, Venus, BSFL aren't suppose to be dusted, especially Calci worms as they're calcium content is even higher than the other BSFL like Repti worms and Phoenix worms(in fact Calci worms can only be given as a staple for a short while to mbd stricken beardies<< SO, BSFL can't be long term staple feeders like dubia's could?

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