Food & Vit ? For 6 month old

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Hello to all the experienced folk!
I'm a newbie owner as of 1/8/18; estimated 6 month old
Currently feeding mixed greens (endive, dandelion, trying mustard today), new veggies (green beans yes, sweet potato no), and 12 crickets daily (all dusted with reptical. Stooling daily; active, beautiful & warming up to us.

For her optimal health & now having a rough estimate of age, what are the best options for live feeders I may alternate with? Doing fine with cricket keeper (minus a few escapees when gathering for feeds, haha!)... dubias? Best ordering websites you've found?
Should she have live feeds 1X or 2X daily? Salad/veg daily, correct? I need to purchase mvi; herptivite the best choice? May I ask dusting schedule for reptical & vitamin?
Lastly, do you count # of live feeders or go by time?

Oops ?; one other opinion about substrate (eeek! I know, wrong forum). Thoughts on hulled millet?
Thanks oodles!
 

VenusAndSaturn

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This should give you some info on different foods you can feed, how to feed her through her life time, when to dust etc, etc.
Also I believe if im correct millet can actually be quite toxic to reptiles and some birds, there was a post a while back (I dont remember how many months or years) but a beardie had ingested a large amount and had become bloated and possibly died. I'll try to find it if i can but your much safer using paper towels, tile, or non adhesive shelf liner. All particle substrates (non solid ones) cause impaction, possibility of eye infections, fungal infections. Its really just not safe to use entirely particle substrate.


1-4 months eat 3 times a day, 4-12 months eat 2 times a day, 12-20 months eat once a day, and then 20+ months eat every other day. Each feeding consists of around 10-20 bugs.

The type of staple feeder bugs you should use are crickets, dubia roaches, turkish roaches, silkworms, grasshoppers, and
calci-worms/phoenix worms/nutrigrubs/BSFL.
For the BSFL make sure you also give one of the other feeders as well when feeding this.
If able to feed all insects a nice staple meal would probably look like this
5 dubia roaches, 5 turkish roaches, 3 silkworms, 3 BSFL, 3 crickets, and 1-2 grasshoppers.
Make sure to change it up each feed with different amounts.

For treats you could use mealworms, superworms, hornworms, waxworms, or butterworms.

Only give around 5-10 mealworms a day or feeding. -Not much protein, not a good calcium to phosphorus ratio.
Only 2-4 superworms every two days or every other day. -High in fat, can cause fatty liver disease if given too many.
Only 3-6 Hornworms a day or every other day. - low fat but high moisture constant, can cause diarrhea if given too much.
Only 2-4 waxworms every two days or every other day. - High fat, can cause fatty liver disease if given too many.
Only 3-6 butterworms every day or every other day. - Low fat, good protein, however they go through radiation when being transported. Could result in a possible sickness if given too many. Possible staple feeder if they didnt go through radiation.

Daily Salads shoud consist of this collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, cactus pad (no spines, raw), cactus pear (prickly pear), dandelion greens, endive, escarole, acorn/butternut (winter)/Hubbard/scallop/spaghetti/ summer squash's can all be fed daily.
Another green of sorts you can give is kale, but only occasionally. Same goes for carrots.
Fruits should be fed once or twice a week in a mix of staple greens, here are few that can be fed, bananas, red raspberries, blueberries, kiwi, pineapple and strawberries.

Supplements are a way to give your beardie what it needs as they would have a more varied diet in the wild.
Calcium and multivitamins without any D3 is preferred.

Less than 20+ months -
Monday-Friday calcium dusted on at least one feeding if not all insects.
Saturday-Sunday Multivitamins dusted on at least one feeding if not all insects.

More or at 20+ months -
Monday, Wednesday, Friday calcium dusted on all insects.
Sunday multivitamins dusted on all insects.

Herptivite is a good multivitamin supplement i believe.
 
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