pscaulkins
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gregorydragon":2a44f said:Tyler,
I know how you feel. I have a 5 month old beardie. He is only 12 inches, which I think is on the small side, although not necessarily tiny. Between 3 and 4 months of age, I didn't have roaches and he would go a few days in between eating crickets. There are two things that I have been able to get our beardie to eat: Roaches and hornworms. Other than that, I think he would rather starve. I tried phoenix worms, silkworms, butterworms, roaches, crickets, and hornworms. He has eaten zero butterworms (out of 50) :| , 4 silkworms (out of 50) , 5 phoenix worms (out of 150) :x , and every hornworm I put in the cage, but I don't think these are a good staple. He has probably eaten less than 500 crickets in a 3 month period. I have no idea how many roaches, but he consumes 30-50 a day consistently :headbang: .
Jeff
Hornworms are a great staple. Better then silkworms in my opinion.
If your beardie will eat hornworms then you should feed him them but they are a bit more costly. All three of my dragons love hornworms but my 5-1/2 month old wouldn't be the size she is now if it weren't for hornworms. She won't eat crickets, butterworms or phoenix worms now. She loves roaches, hornworms and freshly shedded supers.