Hi all,
I just got my 2 month old beardie last week and he’s settling in quite well and eating plenty. However I’m having some trouble feeding him. Could anyone advise please?
I’m currently feeding brown crickets roughly 5 - 10 mm as the dubias available where I live are a bit too big for him.
At the moment I’m painstakingly catching each tiny cricket with tweezers and feeding him around 35 of these throughout the day (he’s currently fed 3 times a day). As you can imagine it’s quite difficult as they hop around when I’m trying to catch them.
All of my research prior to buying him suggested putting them in a bowl or feeding him in a box outside of his viv, however I’ve found that they hop out of the bowl and hide in his viv (even if I refrigerate them first, they warm up before he catches them). He’s quite skittish and while I’m working every day on befriending him, I can’t currently pick him up to put him in a feeding box without causing some stress.
How do the rest of you feed your beardies crickets? Am I doing something wrong or is it really just a case of catching each one until he’s big enough for dubias or trusts me enough to be picked up?
I just got my 2 month old beardie last week and he’s settling in quite well and eating plenty. However I’m having some trouble feeding him. Could anyone advise please?
I’m currently feeding brown crickets roughly 5 - 10 mm as the dubias available where I live are a bit too big for him.
At the moment I’m painstakingly catching each tiny cricket with tweezers and feeding him around 35 of these throughout the day (he’s currently fed 3 times a day). As you can imagine it’s quite difficult as they hop around when I’m trying to catch them.
All of my research prior to buying him suggested putting them in a bowl or feeding him in a box outside of his viv, however I’ve found that they hop out of the bowl and hide in his viv (even if I refrigerate them first, they warm up before he catches them). He’s quite skittish and while I’m working every day on befriending him, I can’t currently pick him up to put him in a feeding box without causing some stress.
How do the rest of you feed your beardies crickets? Am I doing something wrong or is it really just a case of catching each one until he’s big enough for dubias or trusts me enough to be picked up?