I have to agree with
NegativeCreep. I've gone over my two's diets with several people (one being my vet) many times because we had some problems with silkies in the beginning. What I've been told, and personally suggest, is to keep it at about 50 PWs a day and then use crickets or other feeders along with them. PWs are great feeders, my two love them
, the only concern is that a diet of just PWs maybe too much calcium, especially if you need to dust with calcium too. We do occasionally go over 50 a day because of my bad timing of when to order crickets or Kaira's semi-eating strike. But what we were advised to do and what has been working for our two is: 5 days a week they get 25 PWs with their first meal & crickets, they usually get a snack of the other half of their PWs mid-day & crickets at night (or we just do two feedings and it's the same for morning and night). The other two days we only feed crickets, dusting one meal with RepCal w/ D3 & their multivitamin.
That's just the way we do it (try to, anyways, with Kaira being picky & me not knowing when to order more crickets, it's been a little difficult). I know others who only feed PWs and have a healthy, happy beardie, we just choose to mix it up a little & try to make sure they get enough D3, but that's just us.
Oh, and Kaira's about 6 1/2 months old, she's passed whole PWs too on occasion. Even though she gets the large PWs, sometimes she eats to fast and doesn't give everyone a good bite. We've almost completely fixed that problem by only giving her one or two at a time. They are expensive, too. If you have the money, then I guess it's not a big problem lol, but there's no way we could keep Taz full on our budget if he was only allowed PWs (or Kaira when she's eating normally). He'd happily eat 200-300 a day :? ...that's just too much for us lol.
Again, this is just what we do and what we've been told is a good idea for them. We do plan on switching for crickets to supers eventually, but Taz isn't old enough yet and Kaira has some digestive problems
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Abi