What is a good amount of feeders to start out with?

[Fizzylady]

We are picking up a baby next Friday. Not sure on size yet - my son is going to pick the one he wants from the breeder, but we def want a baby. So - what's the best amount of feeders to start out with to be prepared? I already ordered a 100 count of small size phoenix worms. How many crickets/dubias (leaning towards dubias) do I want? How quickly do they grow? I don't want to order so many that by the time the beardie is ready to eat them they are too big.

 

[Doublet74]

Dubia will stay mostly the same size or grow Very slowly as long as you keep them at room temperature. I mean they will still grow but nothing crazy like if you added heat to them. Baby dragons eat ALOT. I mean sometimes as much as 40 baby dubia in a feeding. And you feed them 3 times a day. So you will go through them pretty quickly. When my dragon was a baby.( before I started my dubia colony ) I used to order 1000 dubia nymphs at a time. And that would last about 2 weeks. Good Luck they are alot of fun but as babies they eat ALOT.

 

[Fizzylady]

Thank you!! Will start looking around for a good deal on them!