What types of food does your beardie like?

[Kiara1125]

My Saphira likes the following:

Hibiscus leaves and flowers
Rose petals
Mulberry leaves
Blueberries (major love)
Tomatoes (major love)
Cactus leaves (insides only)
Raspberries
Carrots
Kale
Collard greens

I'm still trying to experiment and find more things that she likes. I have a nursery and an all natural fruit/vegetable/meat market down the street from my house, so I definitely like to visit and see if there is anything that she might like. I recently got some honeybells and dragon fruits. Yummy!

Here's a video of Saphira eating her dinner of tomatoes, pear cactus flesh, mulberry leaves, and hibiscus leaves. Just look at that fat tummy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Zc86Fl0m8

 

[AHBD]

It looks like Saphira has a good appetite for veggies ! My dragons love some of the same flowers as yours. They also like turnip, mustard, collard, dandelion greens as well as low growing green leaf clover.Tomato isn't actually very good for beardies by the way. And my dragons love all the usual bugs of course.

 

[Kiara1125]

Oh, really? Why are tomatoes not that great? I gave Saphira some kale today and she was adorable with how she ate the bushy bits. I may get some crickets from Petco next week. Anything else I can get her as a treat or something to be mixed with her diet? Since I don't have readily available access to any pet or bait stores and I cannot bulk order online, so Saphira really doesn't get any insects. She's mainly vegetation and I'm happy that she's such a great eater.

 

[AHBD]

Tomatoes are O.K. in small amounts but they are highly acidic....maybe the yellow ones are better. So you say you're not able to buy insects in bulk ? Just curious why, [ not to be nosy ] since Saphira could really use the protein especially since it looks like she's still growing. But it is really good that she loves her veggies !

 

[Kiara1125]

Tomatoes are O.K. in small amounts but they are highly acidic....maybe the yellow ones are better. So you say you're not able to buy insects in bulk ? Just curious why, [ not to be nosy ] since Saphira could really use the protein especially since it looks like she's still growing. But it is really good that she loves her veggies !

Alright, so I've been cutting back on the tomatoes and I've been giving her more kale. As for the bulk ordering - say if I got crickets, I have nowhere to house 250 (minimum bulk order) crickets and I don't want to deal with the noise or the stench. I bred mealworms/darkling beetles for my leopard geckos, but I know that beardies can't really have those. Now, if I were to get a bulk order or superworms, how often can I feed them to Saphira?

 

[AHBD]

If you buy pre- wing crickets, they won't chirp.....usually they are 1/2" to 5/8 I think if you order them. You can easily keep them in a medium plastic tote, there is info in the feeder section here as well as on Youtube for keeping crickets. It's not hard and they don't really smell unless you get dead ones in the shipment. Then just be sure to clean them out. Keep a thin layer of oatmeal [ it MUST stay dry ] on the bottom and it reduces the chance of odor. But if you still would rather to just use superworms, just try her out with 3-4 at a time. She should be at least 14" for the medium ones....don't make the mistake of giving too many at once since it can cause a beardie to vomit if they are fed too many. By the way, beardies CAN eat mealworms, some breeders use them, I've used them myself but again, only a few at a time and not as a staple. As for greens, collard, turnip mustard are all better than kale....kale is O.K. but contains high amounts of oxalates which binds calcium. I wouldn't be overly worried as long as you use a good combination of other veggies which you do.