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Feeding
What does 80% insects, 20% greens actually mean?
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[QUOTE="RawrtheBeardedDragon, post: 2023936, member: 117952"] New bearded dragon owner here, have a little guy/gal that's been a pretty good eater. Stuff online says at this young age it's an 80/20 split of insects to greens, and then at 1 year old that'll flip to 80 greens to 20% insects. Here's where I'm probably overthinking things, but what does the 80/20 signify? By calorie? By mass? By number of bites? Gets fed 3-4 times a day, a typical meal is about one baby spinach leaf (from spring mix, so not a variety not always spinach but about that size) ripped up into pieces smaller than pinky fingernail and dipped in water. Won't eat anything bigger to like, take a bite out of the leaf. Then I'll put in a mix of Dubai roaches, crickets, and these dead worms from a can of worms we got a sample of one-by-one into their cage. Eats anywhere from 2-8 insects each feeding. Once he doesn't go after the latest insect I tossed in (toddler loves feeding it one by one like this), I'll pull that insect out or put it in the inescapable pill box so it doesn't stress in the cage. And him not eating the latest insect in a minute or two is how I feel he's "done" with the latest meal. Is this the right ratio of greens to insects? One or half a baby spinach-sized leaf to 2-8 insects per feeding? He really varies the number of insects he's hungry for each time. We did realize that we weren't doing vitamin powders and you're supposed to so we're starting that today. Picture for attention, can’t upload videos I don’t think but he flew out of his log to nom the roach the second my toddler dropped it in his tank [/QUOTE]
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