CooperMountainSchool
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My son (age 9) and I are new to Bearded Dragons and have already gleaned a lot of useful info from your forums. Thank you for this website!
I am a bit swamped in information about feeding this sweet animal. The specialty store told us she's 7 months old. She seems a bit skinnier than the pictures I'm seeing here- she does not have that round belly shape at all yet.
We do not want to deal with crickets unless it's truly necessary for her health. So here are my questions:
If we feed her the recommended staple veggies/fruits from the list at Beautiful Dragons' site, can I just give her BSFL and Dubia as her protein staples?
The cost of feeding her is considerably more than I had realized because of the Dubia we've been buying. In our part of Beaverton Oregon, they are hard to find and when you do find them, they're about $8 for twelve medium insects (less than 1"). She could easily eat that many every day and she's not even fully grown! (Though I do understand that at maturity she'll need a few less per day.) Maintaining a colony ourselves sounds complicated- the main store nearest us just had their entire Dubia colony die, and they're "experts".
I just ordered some BSFL from Flukers, which seems like it may work out to be cheaper. Is there a difference in the names for these? Are they also called Phoenix worms? Is it cost-effective to have them delivered once a month? Or do we need to raise these also (sigh)?
Thanks!
I am a bit swamped in information about feeding this sweet animal. The specialty store told us she's 7 months old. She seems a bit skinnier than the pictures I'm seeing here- she does not have that round belly shape at all yet.
We do not want to deal with crickets unless it's truly necessary for her health. So here are my questions:
If we feed her the recommended staple veggies/fruits from the list at Beautiful Dragons' site, can I just give her BSFL and Dubia as her protein staples?
The cost of feeding her is considerably more than I had realized because of the Dubia we've been buying. In our part of Beaverton Oregon, they are hard to find and when you do find them, they're about $8 for twelve medium insects (less than 1"). She could easily eat that many every day and she's not even fully grown! (Though I do understand that at maturity she'll need a few less per day.) Maintaining a colony ourselves sounds complicated- the main store nearest us just had their entire Dubia colony die, and they're "experts".
I just ordered some BSFL from Flukers, which seems like it may work out to be cheaper. Is there a difference in the names for these? Are they also called Phoenix worms? Is it cost-effective to have them delivered once a month? Or do we need to raise these also (sigh)?
Thanks!