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Dietary Needs
Errors in widespread nutrition guides for beardies
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[QUOTE="Claudiusx, post: 1917322, member: 31715"] Dubias aren't bad necessarily, but too many people feed too much of them. There are a couple other posts here about it, but basically dubias dont excrete their uric acid like other creatures do they store it as they have a mechanism that can use that stored UA for another function. So, feeding dubias greatly increases blood concentrations of UA in dragons. A remedy to this would be to feed dubias a much lower protein diet. Most roach chews are 12-20% protein which is just way too high. A diet around 4% protein seems to be a good middle ground for dubias. We've seen cases here where vets have told owners that their dragon is dying of kidney failure and posted up extremely high UA levels. It's been more than once that weve told the owner to up the oral hydration and cut out the dubias and cut back on the protein. In a few weeks at another checkup, UA levels were back down to normal ranges. So if you're breeding your own dubias and can control their diet, you're way better off than those who feed the stuff that their breeder sells them. I feed dubias and have my own colony, but dubias make up less than 25% of my crews insect diet I would say. I dont buy the myth that mealworms are hard to digest. I've never had issues with mealworms passing undigested. Those that do can typically be linked back to improper husbandry or parasites. Mealworms have plenty of nutrition too. Did you read the link I posted? Anyways, dont want to side track your thread on whether or not mealworms are an ok food. Everyone has their own opinions. Ps. I think this discussion is a good thread to have in the advanced discussion thread, so I'm going to move it there if you dont mind :) -Brandon [/QUOTE]
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