feeding my 12-month old bd...

[verena]

Hi,
Lola is my first bearded dragon and she just turned one year old I have some questions about her diet:
She stopped eating crickets about two months ago. I have been feeding her goliath worms, butter worms, and giant mealworms. She eats about 3 goliath worms, 5 butterworms, and 15 mealworms almost every day. I also give her salad but she barely touches it, since she was a baby...
1. How many times a day should she eat?
2. How many of each worm should I give her?
3. Does she still need the powdered calcium every day and the vitamins twice a week?
4. I put water in her tank, but she does not seem to be interested in it.
Can anyone answer my questions or give me some advice? I would really appreciate the help. Thanks. Verena

 

[lizzywoodwardBD]

Your baby should be eatting once a day with live feeders and also salad everyday. I would not advise you to feed your baby mealworms everyday, they are not very good for them since they have the hard exteriors. Some good worms for them would be silkworms, horn worms, and pheonix worms(they are very small thou). You can do a variety of feeders every week by doing different ones everyday. with calcium you can cut it down to around 3 times per week.

Try and feed the salad first thing in the morning before the live feeders and she might eat some more.