LLLReptile
Juvie Member
I've had several people in the stores ask me about this, so I figured I would share the technique here as well! 
Basically, this is an easy way to add a little bit "extra" to your beardie's diet, with the addition of pelleted food and canned diets specially formulated for beardies.
I start with a mix of greens and some cheese-grated veggies. What I offered today was kale, cilantro, romaine lettuce, grated squash and grated carrots.
Then I soaked the pelleted foods in some water until they were mushy and fallen apart, and then mixed in canned omnivorous lizard and tortoise food, in addition to canned iguana food and red banana mixins. I used these canned diets because this mix was also offered to some other species of lizards and tortoises, but there is no reason the beardies in the store can't eat some too.
Using your hands to mix it up feels very much like being a 5 year old making mud pies.
Blue tongue skinks relish the same kind of veggies that beardies do, and here is an example of what the blue tongues get - this mix also had some canned snails added in.
Clearly, they were thrilled!
We only had a couple of tiny baby bearded dragons to eat the food, and I am still learning to use the new store camera, so unfortunately none of those pictures turned out. But our Uromastyx were thrilled!
Pretty much, the goal is to mix everything up so that the greens are coated in both canned and pelleted food, so that when your beardie eats the greens they also get the diet as well. This technique of mixing it up can also entice stubborn feeders that don't like their greens, as the canned diets smell pretty delicious and are brightly colored - big hits with stubborn eaters!
I hope you found this helpful, this technique has helped some of our store customers immensely, and we do this a couple times a month to help add variety to the animals' diets. Thanks for reading!
-Jen
Basically, this is an easy way to add a little bit "extra" to your beardie's diet, with the addition of pelleted food and canned diets specially formulated for beardies.
I start with a mix of greens and some cheese-grated veggies. What I offered today was kale, cilantro, romaine lettuce, grated squash and grated carrots.
Then I soaked the pelleted foods in some water until they were mushy and fallen apart, and then mixed in canned omnivorous lizard and tortoise food, in addition to canned iguana food and red banana mixins. I used these canned diets because this mix was also offered to some other species of lizards and tortoises, but there is no reason the beardies in the store can't eat some too.
Using your hands to mix it up feels very much like being a 5 year old making mud pies.
Blue tongue skinks relish the same kind of veggies that beardies do, and here is an example of what the blue tongues get - this mix also had some canned snails added in.
Clearly, they were thrilled!
We only had a couple of tiny baby bearded dragons to eat the food, and I am still learning to use the new store camera, so unfortunately none of those pictures turned out.
But our Uromastyx were thrilled!Pretty much, the goal is to mix everything up so that the greens are coated in both canned and pelleted food, so that when your beardie eats the greens they also get the diet as well. This technique of mixing it up can also entice stubborn feeders that don't like their greens, as the canned diets smell pretty delicious and are brightly colored - big hits with stubborn eaters!
I hope you found this helpful, this technique has helped some of our store customers immensely, and we do this a couple times a month to help add variety to the animals' diets. Thanks for reading!
-Jen
