In the feeding babies mindset...how much to feed at 6 months

opaquelace · May 9, 2020

Like the title says, I’m still in the mindset of my bearded dragons eating like babies. Lots and lots of insects twice a day with salads in the morning. However, they are 6 months old and I want to avoid over feeding them. They are good about eating veggies. Wilbur prefers greens and CandyCane likes squash and fruit and greens. I realize I’ve been feeding bugs twice a day and I probably don’t have to anymore? How much and how often should they get super worms/dubias/BSFL? And how much if I feed medium sized worms and dubias? They’ll eat everything I give them so I can’t trust them lol. They’re prob 17 inches long and I really need to get a scale to see how much they weigh. Both still shed really frequently. Maybe once a month/every 6 weeks. When should I expect that to taper off?

KarrieRee · May 9, 2020

They still need their insects --- but w/ every thing your feeding in the morning I am surprised they are eating in the afternoon --- Blaze tapered off at around 4-5 months at the afternoon feeding -- I was offering but he wasnt eating so I dont feed him in the afternoons - I leave his salad in the tank till around 3 so if he wants he can go eat it along w/ whatever dubias he didnt eat from earlier -- and if yours are still growing w/ the shedding I would keep feeding them --- I see Blazes tail has gotten dark about the last half of it or so -- and right on his tail / butt its gonna shed too --- so hes growing now again --- on April 5 he was 16 inches -- I need to measure him again - he will be 11 months old next weekend-- they can grow til around 1 1/2 I believe - maybe a little longer -- I am not sure
Karrie

Claudiusx · May 9, 2020

You can definitely drop to once a day insects at their size and age. It's great that they are eating their salads. I typically switch mine over to only once a day bugs after only a few months truth be told. But that's my own preference.

-Brandon

opaquelace · May 9, 2020

KarrieRee":371r2kzs said:
They still need their insects --- but w/ every thing your feeding in the morning I am surprised they are eating in the afternoon --- Blaze tapered off at around 4-5 months at the afternoon feeding -- I was offering but he wasnt eating so I dont feed him in the afternoons - I leave his salad in the tank till around 3 so if he wants he can go eat it along w/ whatever dubias he didnt eat from earlier -- and if yours are still growing w/ the shedding I would keep feeding them --- I see Blazes tail has gotten dark about the last half of it or so -- and right on his tail / butt its gonna shed too --- so hes growing now again --- on April 5 he was 16 inches -- I need to measure him again - he will be 11 months old next weekend-- they can grow til around 1 1/2 I believe - maybe a little longer -- I am not sure
Karrie

Yea they’re definitely eating in the morning and evening around 2 hours before lights out. They get salad and dubias/worms around 830/9 am and typically eat all the bugs and a few greens. They’ll finish the greens around 1030/11. I’ll remove and give worms/dubias around 5. They eat everything every day. I’ll take some pictures tomorrow of them tomorrow. They’ve gotten even larger.

opaquelace · May 9, 2020

Claudiusx":2gluravm said:
You can definitely drop to once a day insects at their size and age. It's great that they are eating their salads. I typically switch mine over to only once a day bugs after only a few months truth be told. But that's my own preference.

-Brandon

K. I’m mostly worried about them getting obese lol. They’re not overweight looking at all but I remembered I was supposed to be tapering off on their food. Granted, since they’re getting larger bugs the amount is not the same. They’re not eating 1000 medium roaches a week. It’s been a week and a half since I got 500 in and I still have some and I’ve got a good bit of super worms left too since I ordered 2000 lol.

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