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[saranita]

I don't know if this is ER or health but I'm sorry i want help asap because im worried. I was just on the discussions where people post pics and noticed my Rylee is not a "filled out" as everyone else I see! He doesn't have a buddah belly like at all and I'm wondering what I can do to fatten him up but not post a health risk? heres a pic

its the best one I had I'll try and get a better one of his body tomorow

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Can you tell us what the diet is? Also what are your temps in the viv and how your measuring them? Sometimes beardies grow differently then others.

 

[saranita]

His diet is salad aLl day and crickets in the morning, I'm thinking of feeding him crickets more often (I'm new at this) but I'm wondering if there is more I can do?

 

[saranita]

anybody?

 

[Twobeardieguy]

I suggest feeding crickets twice a day as many as he will eat in a 15 minute period and salad! You can also do roaches, phoenix worms, hornworms and silk worms.

 

[fez09]

I really recommend feeding twice per day when their that young! How many crickets are being fed each meal??

 

[saranita]

most he's eaten at one time is 30! but I usually give him 15 then sometimes he runs to the side of his tank to show me he's still hungry, this morning he got 16, then 10 at 6pm

 

[Delshara]

I agree, give him at least two meals per day. Nero ate 60 to 100 insects a day when he was younger plus daily salad, and he's never gotten health problems because of this. Even now he doesn't really have a buddah belly. It's rounded, but it's certainly not dragging him down. Just make sure your basking temps are high-ish, around 100 F. Beardies slow down on bugs as they become adults. How are you supplementing his meals?

 

[saranita]

I dusk his crickets every morning with a calcium powder