Am I feeding enough dubias?

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wuke

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My bearded dragon is 12.5 inches long. They told me at the pet store that he's probably a couple months old, but I'm thinking he's got to be at least 3 months, based on his size.

Anyway, I got my order of dubias yesterday, and I'm trying to figure out if I'm feeding him enough. The dubias are all 3/4" - 1". Yesterday he got about 10 crickets and 10 dubias. Today I gave him 15 dubias in a span of about 5 minutes, but he could have eaten more. He really goes after them, and it feels like if I stuck the whole batch of 200 roaches in there he would gobble them all down in one sitting. Does fifteen 3/4" - 1" dubias per day (no crickets), plus salad seem like enough?
 

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That's a reasonable amount of food so he should be fine. With dubia I keep the same rule of 10 minutes per meal all he wants that is used with crickets rather than a set number. Sometimes they really go to town, sometimes they have a little and stop. They seem to have a pretty good sense of how much they need.
 
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