What do you feed your dragon?

[PuffMagic]

I was really upset the other day because my dubia colony is finally big enough to feed off of and my older dragon Blaze wouldnt even look at it (I only put one in to see what she would do). She is lazy and they move rather fast, so I think she is like F*** it. My other one Puff isn't eating anything but babyfood right now cause he is recovering from parasites. So I hope he likes them when he is better.

 

[superbiker]

I am rather interested in the quantities some of you are saying particulary with the live feed, if I fed both Merlin and Guinevere 50 to 80 cricks each per day it would be costing me in the region of 20 euro a day plus veg. Average box of cricks are approx 40 and cost 5 euro multiply that for 4 boxes a day 7 days a week and its 140euro a week just for that. Somehow the numbers dont ring quite true.
Comment guys because either I am starving mine and need to get rid of them or there are some very very large Beardies out there.
Cheers
Mike

 

[YellowOctopus]

I am rather interested in the quantities some of you are saying particulary with the live feed, if I fed both Merlin and Guinevere 50 to 80 cricks each per day it would be costing me in the region of 20 euro a day plus veg. Average box of cricks are approx 40 and cost 5 euro multiply that for 4 boxes a day 7 days a week and its 140euro a week just for that. Somehow the numbers dont ring quite true.
Comment guys because either I am starving mine and need to get rid of them or there are some very very large Beardies out there.
Cheers
Mike

I feed Wally (9 months) somewhere between 0 and 7 crickets a day. It really depends on what she's had.

I've read a lot of places (books, websites, a pamphlet our vet gave me) that as bearded dragons get older, you should be decreasing the amount of live food offered and go to mostly a salad and veggies, with animal matter (crickets, superworms, frozen/thawed mice) biweekly or less.

 

[superbiker]

That looks a bit more realistic to me,merlin has about 5 cricks and 2 or 3 superworms and Guinevere has similar per day plus they both love the salad all day. Both are a year old.

 

[Fallencomrade2008]

Some days my oldest will only want 2-3 roaches in a week. Mostly veggi's and berries for him.