Cricket Feeding

[Barfish88]

Hi All

My beardie is around 9 weeks old. I have a small fish tank which I use to feed him in. I put him in the tank along with around 15 crickets. I find that he only eats 4-6 crickets a time (feed him 3 times a day). So is around 15 crickets a day enough? He does love his salad though. He normally just about finishes he salad which i give him daily. I take the crickets out the storage bin and put them is a small dish with gutload every evening.

Temps: Hot side 39 degrees (celcius), cold side 29-30 degrees celcius. he has a zoo med uvb 10 floresent tube which is around 35cm above him.

I read somewhere that infrared light bulbs are no good for night time, is that right?

 

[keen77]

Hey just make sure the crix are eye width. I would say 15-30 a day sounds about right. He would probably love phoenix worms too, and Dubia Roaches. Mine just recently tried silkworms and loved em. When he gets about 15" you can start o Superworms. yea they can see red light at night, and it can stress them. does your house drop below 65 at night? If so a ceramic heat coil would work fine

 

[Barfish88]

bought some silkworm eggs hopefully they will hatch soon

 

[UnaidedSoul]

The magic number for superworms is 16"