We purchased our beardie, Gomez about 7 weeks ago. He wasn't a super tiny baby when we got him from Petsmart, but he was a baby. Currently, we feed him the following daily.
In the morning:
- fresh water
- fresh cut up Mustard Greens, carrots and peppers
- 10 mealworms
- 10 crickets
In the evening:
- 10 mealworms
- 10 crickets
We just recently switched him to large crickets and he hasn't been eating quite as many and I have to remove them from the tank. I think we may cut down to 5 or 6 twice a day. He seems to be growing nicely. He catches the crickets easily. We put calcium on his food about 5-6x/week, but it looks like we may need to do that daily? I also just ordered a multi vitamin spray to add to his food. He doesn't eat all his fresh greens/veggies every day and we just dump the old stuff daily and give him fresh food. But he will sit and munch on them happily. He poops normally about once/day, sometimes twice.
Here's my dilemma. The crickets are super gross. I'm totally fine with them in the summer as we keep them in our garage, but not sure I want that in my house in the winter. They smell so horrible. I live in Wisconsin so the cold months outnumber the warm ones. I've talked to several people who think I'm crazy to feed live crickets as they either freeze their crickets and just thaw some and feed daily, or they buy freeze dried crickets. But online it seems that most of the info leans towards feeding live crickets.
Does anyone else freeze their crickets? Does anyone else feed freeze dried crickets?
Wanting to hear some thoughts regarding this! Thanks in advance!
In the morning:
- fresh water
- fresh cut up Mustard Greens, carrots and peppers
- 10 mealworms
- 10 crickets
In the evening:
- 10 mealworms
- 10 crickets
We just recently switched him to large crickets and he hasn't been eating quite as many and I have to remove them from the tank. I think we may cut down to 5 or 6 twice a day. He seems to be growing nicely. He catches the crickets easily. We put calcium on his food about 5-6x/week, but it looks like we may need to do that daily? I also just ordered a multi vitamin spray to add to his food. He doesn't eat all his fresh greens/veggies every day and we just dump the old stuff daily and give him fresh food. But he will sit and munch on them happily. He poops normally about once/day, sometimes twice.
Here's my dilemma. The crickets are super gross. I'm totally fine with them in the summer as we keep them in our garage, but not sure I want that in my house in the winter. They smell so horrible. I live in Wisconsin so the cold months outnumber the warm ones. I've talked to several people who think I'm crazy to feed live crickets as they either freeze their crickets and just thaw some and feed daily, or they buy freeze dried crickets. But online it seems that most of the info leans towards feeding live crickets.
Does anyone else freeze their crickets? Does anyone else feed freeze dried crickets?
Wanting to hear some thoughts regarding this! Thanks in advance!