Wyatt will only eat about 7 or 8 crickets a day...

[WyattEarp]

Wyatt is about 4-5 weeks old. He will only eat 2 or 3 crickets in the morning and maybe 4 (maybe) in the afternoon. If I try to give him anymore he wants nothing to do with them. If I try at different times, still, no more...he seems to be very healthy, but I am getting a little concerned because I see all these posts that say beardies should be eating a huge amount of crickets while young. He will munch on his greens a tiny bit first thing in the morning before his couple of crickets, but still not much.
Anyone else have this kind of BD?

Thx
Wyatts Mom

ps should I try the appetite Bites?

 

[randommonks]

What size crickets are you feeding? Also, how long have you had Wyatt? What are the temps in your enclosure and are you using a UVB? I've heard that a lot of people have beardies that go nutty for the Beardie Bites, but mine would never touch the stuff, and I have a random bag of pink cubes in my fridge which I can't figure out what to do with :roll:

 

[Catalyst]

What size crickets are you feeding? Also, how long have you had Wyatt? What are the temps in your enclosure and are you using a UVB? I've heard that a lot of people have beardies that go nutty for the Beardie Bites, but mine would never touch the stuff, and I have a random bag of pink cubes in my fridge which I can't figure out what to do with :roll:

Sorry this isn't on topic, but if your dragon won't eat the beardie bites, you can give them to your crickets to eat - that way your dragon still gets the good stuff because it'll be inside the crickets. Just a tip I found helpful when my dragon also refused to eat that type of food.

 

[WyattEarp]

We've had Wyatt for about a week. He seems to be doing really good other than eating a lot of crickets. I did notice yesterday that some of the ones that are in the keeper are getting big! I know those are too big to give to him. Also he has his UVB/UVA light "ReptiSun". The temp for some reason only gets about 90 F. It's a wooden viv with Acrilic doors that slide.

I will try the Beardie bites and see if that helps his appetite. Also the note on giving them to the crickets if Wyatt won't eat them is great!
Thanks All

 

[randommonks]

It might be that his temps aren't high enough for him to digest properly. How are you measuring that temperature? Basking spots for a baby should be between 100-110F, preferably toward the higher end of that range. Try moving the basking spot closer to the lamp, or vice versa, and play around with temperatures.

It normally takes about 2 weeks for a bearded dragon to get settled into a new home, and in that time he should slowly increase the amount of food that he eats. Darwin was never much of a voracious eater when he was a baby, and he went from eating 2-5 crickets per day when I first got him to about 30 crickets per day 3 weeks later up until I switched to roaches. As long as your baby is active and has a nice, round belly, I think he should be fine.

 

[WyattEarp]

OK I will try that. And yes his belly is nice and round...maybe he's sneaking his greens in the middle of the night, lol. Since everytime I look at him when he is eating some of his vegies he instantly stops and runs to his rock. Silly boy..
Thanks again