SomeDude":200nmr2y said:So I want a feeding schedule and the amount of crickets I should feed a 3 month old bearded dragon. I have been struggling with my bearded dragon in terms of feeding it. I need to know when to feed my bearded dragon crickets and how many. I was thinking of a chart like this:
Monday. rep-cal juvenile pellets and veggies.
Tuesday. Pellets and veggies.
Wednesday. Crickets and veggies.
Thursday. Pellets and veggies.
Friday. pellets and veggies.
Saturday. Rep-cal calcium and Herptivite dusted crickets and veggies.
Sunday. Pellets and veggies.
Sorry but this will not do.
At 3 months old your HATCHLING is growing and developing rapidly and NEEDS AT LEAST 3 meals of high quality live insects (LOTS OF THEM , and AS MANY AS IT WILL EAT PER MEAL) per day
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all insects need to be LIGHTLY dusted with calcium powder everyday and a mix of calcium powder and reptile vitamins on the weekends.
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NOT NEGOTIABLE at least 10% UVB from a GOOD UVB globe or tube (ensure the level of UVB is at about 180-200 microW UVB / sq.cm at the basking spot and 100 microW UVB elsewhere
see viewtopic.php?f=34&t=235611
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NOT LESS THAN 14 hours of UV from a UVB tube or globe EVERY DAY.
Suitable insects to feed a 3 month old bearded dragon hatchling as listed here as GOOD staple insects
>> BSF lavae and pupae and flies
>> blowfly gents & pupae & fliues
..... the pupae and flies , great for hatchlings and juveniles , naturally rich in calcium
>> silkworms
small (1-1.5 inch for sub 3 month olds)
medium (1.5 - 2 inch for larger hatchlings and juveniles)
large ( > 2 inch for beardies older than 12 months.
>> crickets / roaches / locusts , must be gutloaded with calcium rich foods and greens & dusted LIGHTLY with calcium powder.
Repashi GRUBPIE is acceptable as a backup food.
Hard and soft pellets are VERY dubious , ok mixed in as softened croutons through their greens/salad (maybe). BUT NOT ADEQUATE for use as a hatchlings staple source of protein despite the sales pitch.
Bites = rubbish food.
Canned insects = rubbish
Vacuum dried insects = rubbish.
Is this good? Also, how many crickets?
Offer the crickets 2 -3 at a time , let hatchling chase them down and eat them , then off another few , keep doing this each meal until the hatchling looses interest (because it's too full).
The number of crickets per meal, and per day is stongly dependent on the crickets' size and the actual size of the hatchling .
How heavy is the hatchling ?
What size crickets are you buying ?
VenusAndSaturn":a9yl8h8w said:Yeah veggies in the morning, i usually turn the lights on at around 7 or 8 go prepare everyones meals (i have 6 lizards in total only 3 beardies so it takes about an hour or so for me), give everyone their salads and for my juvenile throw in like 10 crickets or so in the morning and then go do school work. And then when my juvenile was 4 months i used to throw in 15 crickets around 12 however if you cant you could do it as soon as you can and then at around 6 i give her the 15 dusted crickets and clean any uneaten food out and turn the lights off at 9. So its on a 13-14 hour schedule at the moment.
The reason it cant have d3 in it is because they can overdose on it if they have too much of it, at the moment i supplement with d3 calcium only on Thursday and Friday so they still get a bit extra but not overly extra.
You can get crickets online for a cheap price so with only one lizard it wont break your wallet trust me. I believe you can order like 2,000 crickets on amazon for like 40 dollars. Or you can get dubia roaches from dubiaroaches.com (they stop shipping on the 17th sadly until it warms up) and start your own colony, buy like 25 females and 1 or 2 males and a few babies and wait a few months or so and you should get 40 babies each female when they give birth.
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