MountainMama
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I recently got a bearded dragon from someone who couldn't care for it anymore. She said he is about a year and a half old, and he's about 17 inches long.
Can you overfeed them? I did a lot of research before taking him, and I've read that you should feed them mostly veggies (offered each day), and crickets or other live food about twice a week. I never could find an actual amount of crickets to give him, but everything I've found said to feed him until he stops eating within about a 10 minute span.
So Draco (that's his name) will keep eating crickets or mealworms and not stop. If they are in front of him, he will eat them. At first, I thought maybe it was just a novelty for him, because he was getting mostly just the pellets where he was before. After a week, though, he is still eating like crazy. He will gobble up the veggies every morning, and so far he has been eating about 30-40 crickets every other day. I cut him off at 40 because I don't know if I'm overfeeding him. I'm still offering the pellets, too, because he is used to them. He eats some of those also.
I have a mealworm colony, that I got from someone else, and he will gobble those up, too. There seems to be conflicting information about bearded dragons eating too much as adults, so I thought I'd ask people who have them.
Can you overfeed them? I did a lot of research before taking him, and I've read that you should feed them mostly veggies (offered each day), and crickets or other live food about twice a week. I never could find an actual amount of crickets to give him, but everything I've found said to feed him until he stops eating within about a 10 minute span.
So Draco (that's his name) will keep eating crickets or mealworms and not stop. If they are in front of him, he will eat them. At first, I thought maybe it was just a novelty for him, because he was getting mostly just the pellets where he was before. After a week, though, he is still eating like crazy. He will gobble up the veggies every morning, and so far he has been eating about 30-40 crickets every other day. I cut him off at 40 because I don't know if I'm overfeeding him. I'm still offering the pellets, too, because he is used to them. He eats some of those also.
I have a mealworm colony, that I got from someone else, and he will gobble those up, too. There seems to be conflicting information about bearded dragons eating too much as adults, so I thought I'd ask people who have them.