Question about greens!

[David42]

So my beardie is almost 2 months old now, he's an eating machine when it comes to worms and crickets. Believe it or not he also devours his greens, which are usually kale, dandelion, and lettuce. Should I offer him less veggies since the ratio should be around 80-20 for his age? In glad he loves then already because I heard that they usually don't, but should I reduce how much I feed him? He also eats around 15 crickets a day, as well as occasional meal worms and canned crickets which I hand feed everyday

 

[dragonlover3]

See the food list at Beautiful Dragon. http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html
Lettuce is mainly water, not much nutrition, better to give collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens and dandelion greens as daily staples. It not good practice to give Kale as a staple. Kale has oxalate which bind with the calcium rendering it unable to be absorbed. The 80% bugs, protein...protein to 20 % greens/veggies.

 

[David42]

Thank you, I only offer kale twice a week and he always eats it.