Dragon Newbie here :)

[zebrasmiles]

Hi everyone! My names Justine, and my boyfriend decided he wanted to buy a bearded dragon, so because I don't know a whole lot about them I decided to join this site. I have learned so much already from here! This is our little cutie:

I think he/she is a girl, I tried looking the way I saw online showed me, but I don't know if it's to young to tell or not. We haven't decided on a name yet though, so that's on the check list.

I was wondering if I could ask a couple of questions to the smart dragon owners on here since I can't really seem to find a solid answer. I am not sure on the feeding schedule. I get the salads everyday and what to give it in that, but since it's still a little guy how often am I suppose to feed him/her protein a day. I know once they're older its less, but I don't know about now. I of course don't know the exact age since this was a pet store purchase and I forgot to ask, but you can tell he/shes still young. I heard 2-3 times a day, but I just wanted to get an opinion.

My second question is about the dusting of the multivitamins and the calcium. I read you need both I bought a kit and it came with calcium w/o d3. I also read that I should probably get the w/ d3 kind. But how often are you putting these 2 things in their food?

Thank you so much to anyone that can help me out! Any recommnedations on the brand of powders I need to would be great I am going after work today to buy the rest of our stuff.

 

[CooperDragon]

She's a nice looking dragon. Very alert and healthy looking. She looks maybe a month old or so but it's hard to tell for sure. She will hit some growth spurts and get VERY hungry in the first few months. For now, I recommend offering bugs 2x per day for about 10 minutes or so or until she loses interest. Just offer all she wants in that timeframe. I dust the bugs every feeding with calcium 5x per week and multivitamins the other 2x. I use Repashy calcium plus and supervite and have good luck with them. There are other good choices available too, but that's what I use.

 

[zebrasmiles]

Thank you, I went to the store during my lunch and was able to buy mostly everything but the multivitamins, they didn't have any left so I'll have to check later. That helps a lot though so thank for the advice.