Certain feeders- still bad even with dusting/gutloading?

[nicbez]

Like most of you I use the Beautiful Dragons nutrition content to decide what to feed my beardie. I know that the calcium to phosphorus ratio is very important and mealworms for example come in at 1:25 when not gut-loaded or dusted. If I combine some of these with turnip greens (about 5:1) the combined calciumhosphorus ratio is about 5:1 which seems pretty good and that's not including the calcium dust that gets added to the mealworms.

My question is whether it would be okay to feed gut-loaded/dusted mealworms or superworms semi regularly when in combination with greens like turnip or collard greens?

 

[Claudiusx]

Superworms are fine occasionally if your dragon is over 16 inches.

Mealworms shouldn't be fed.

CA ratio is not the only thing you should take into consideration when choosing a feeder. It is just one piece of the many pieces in the puzzle.

-Brandon

 

[Taterbug]

Gut loading the feeders also can bring them up closer to 1:1 depending on the species. Extremely high Ca isn't ideal either, phosphorus is still important.