With adult dragons, do youguys limit the amount of food, or forcably change the ratio of veg to protein for your dragons?
I have a 12m male, and an 18m female. Until now I've given them more than they eat in a day, and then new stuff the next day. Should I limit their food? Thru have both naturally switched to more veg, but should I also assist in that? Or do I just let them figure it out?
Both (in my opinion) are not full grown, they are yearlings/sub-adults... to me when a beardie becomes an adult its around 2 years of age as they still have a bit of growing to do below 2 years.
Anyway at their age until their about 20 months they should be getting insects daily along with veggies daily. Only one meal of insects instead of two though.
However I did switch my two eldest beardies to every other day insects when they turned 18 months to acclimate them into eating less.
Heres a feeding guide if this helps any.
A young bearded dragons diet generally is about 70% bugs and 20% greens and 10% fruits.
Meanwhile an adult bearded dragons diet is about 20% bugs, 70% greens and 10% fruits.
(This is just a rough estimate of the diet)
All life stages eat 10-20 bugs a feeding.
1-4 months 3x a day.
4-12 months 2x a day.
12-20 months once a day.
20+ months twice a week at the least, every other day at the most.
Treat feeders - Waxworms, hornworms, superworms, mealworms, butterworms.
Wax worms - once a week, 4-5 max.
Hornworms - every other day to every two days, 4-6 max.
Mealworms - every other day to every two days, 5-10 max. Only for beardies above 6 months.
Superworms - once or twice a week, 3-4 max. Only for beardies above 12 months.
Butterworms - once or twice a week, 3-4 max.
You want two supplements at the very least, a calcium and a multivitamin.
Generally beardies below two years need calcium 5x a week and multivitamins 2x a week.
However beardies above two years or at two years of age need calcium only 2-4x a week with
multivitamins 1-2x a week.
This depends on how your adult beardie is with diet, health, just laid eggs, is laying eggs, etc.