When feeding crickets to your bearded dragon, be sure to wait at least 24 hours between meals. Adding crickets to your dragon’s diet will disturb them while they sleep. Also, feeder insects can fall into the water dish and cause harmful bacteria to grow. To avoid this problem, make sure to only feed a few crickets at a time, and monitor their behavior to ensure that they do not hide in a corner and scurry away.
When feeding crickets to your bearded dragon, remember that live crickets are jumpy and stimulate your beardie’s senses. Freeze-dried crickets may not be detectable by your beardie and might have some kind of disease or parasitic infection. As for food, avoid overcrowding, since this will cause humidity. You can also use egg cartons, which provide hiding spots for the crickets.
As you get your beardie closer to the hatchling stage, you can start feeding crickets to your baby. Depending on its age, your beardie may need up to 80 crickets a day. As it grows, you should gradually reduce the number of crickets to three or four per dragon. As it grows, you can transition the diet to greens. For babies, however, it is best to start feeding crickets at the same time as other food sources.
You should also make sure that you do not feed dead crickets to your beardie. The reason is because rotting cricket flesh is toxic for your beardie and could cause serious illness. You should also avoid using greens that have been left in its cage for too long, as they can turn moldy and contaminated with bacteria. As for crickets, make sure you buy small crickets and feed them one at a time, and keep them fresh.
You can also use rubber-tipped tongs or your hands to pick up live crickets and feed your beardie often. It will train your beardie to catch crickets as an adult. Baby beardies do not consume greens, so you may want to gut load them with leafy vegetables. If you’re feeding them crickets as a treat, try dusting them with calcium powder to make up for their lack of vitamins and minerals.
Adult bearded dragons need a mixture of greens and protein. They will eat fewer crickets than babies, but they still need the greens, so be sure to increase the mealworms. Aim to feed your beardie at least three or four mealworms a day, and do not allow your beardie to eat too much. Adding a few greens every day will help keep them healthy and happy.
Once your beardie is an adult, you can start feeding it crickets once a day. Adult beardies will eat anywhere from five to a hundred crickets a day, depending on their size and metabolism. If your beardie is still too small to eat crickets, you can also offer it Dubia roaches or superworms. Just make sure to watch for the crickets and remember to keep them away from the heat.
