Dehydration I'm guessing also.I agree with you. Foxy ate 15 crickets a day until he was a year old and was full after that. He somehow regulated this amount himself, you said about 12-20 insects a day and I immediately remembered what happened a year ago. I think this is a good number to recommend.
You are also right about mortality from predators. This greatly affects mortality in the wild, but I think low immunity and hunger also contribute.
I read your comment. You said everything correctly and I will put my signature under every word you say.I went and watched that video. I lit him up in the comments, he'll probably just delete it but maybe some folks will see it before he does. I wasn't nasty but I was very direct.
Pretty much all the problems he trying to blame on over feeding comes right back to piss poor husbandry. People are to lazy to research and/or to cheap to get the lighting right. Period. I have quite realistically rescued two beardies with mbd. One was friggen paralyzed the other trembled so bad she couldn't eat. Both were severely emaciated. Now they are thriving. Ruby has regained use of her legs (but she is still shakey) bless her heart she couldn't even lift her tail when she pooped, she just had to set in it, that's not the case now, and I only see the trembling if Sweet Pea is super focused on her intended bug.
They recovered because I gave them optimal lighting, calcium , multivitamins AND food. Lots of food. They are both at a healthy weight. That didn't happen by friggen starving them. Feeding insects DOES NOT cause calcium deficiency as he out right says (assuming one offers calcium) chity keepers cause it with bad care.
We don't need to be nasty with people like him, it just makes them look like the victim, but we do all need to firmly correct them every time, and we need to articulate why what they are saying is wrong, and how dangerous it can be for the beardies. After all at the end of the day, even the misinformed truely only want to take care of their beardies as best they can.
We just need to help them understand how to do that.
That is why I spend so much time here, I seriously doubt there is a more informed or knowledgeable group of keepers anywhere. 10 years later and I still learn new stuff and better methods all the time.
Thank youI read your comment. You said everything correctly and I will put my signature under every word you say.
You raised the topic of the size of bugs for feeding our dragons, I would like to clarify once again which dimension is involved in choosing the size - length or width.One thing to notice in the shorter video that I posted first is that they show a 10-11" dragon, not a hatchling, eating a dubia the size of the dragon's head. That size is just on the brink of being too large which if it WERE too large could cause impaction. But anyway, a beardie very well would be filled up by 4-6 of those huge dubia but not everyone can get those. To make up for it [ and to use bugs that are a a safer size ] a person might offer 10 -12 or so medium crickets or large bsfl.
Does this mean that an adult dragon can eat 5-6 adult dubia without harm to health? Even when the cockroach's length is greater than the size between its eyes?For babies it's very important that to safely feed insects you go with insects that are no longer than the space between their eyes. By babies I mean hatchling to probably 6-7 ". A larger baby/juvenile such as shown in the first video can get away with the rule being bent , using larger insects, but care must still be taken.
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