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This is what our member has to say: she is 11 inchs and I feed her a lot of vegies and large crickets. she eats about 10 to 20 crickets a day. and ...


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05-02-2005, 11:45 PM
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she is 11 inchs and I feed her a lot of vegies and large crickets. she eats about 10 to 20 crickets a day. and she eats half a plate full of greens during the day and she eats almost the rest of the vegies later at night. she very hydrated.the temps are normally 100-110 and during the night it drops down to 80-95 degrees. she doesnt eat in the morning so I stopped feeding her in the morning. less hasle and less chances of leaving a cricket behind when im at school. but when I get home I drop about 10 in there now and she chomps them up then goes to basking spot. and I feed her again 3 hours befor I turn the lights off. i clean her cage every week becuz I use washed playsand and it gets vegies and left over cricket legs in it that needs to be cleaned up. i clean up the poo as soon as I see it lol which is like 3 mins after I smell it ( EWWWWW) so the cage is always clean.( the cage is in my room) i also soak her every 2 or 3 days.
i feed her fruits ever friday as a treat but the rest of the week its all vegies.

do you guys think what im doing is ok. shes growing shes eatting shes pooing and she active.

one more thing how do I put pics on a post I would like to show you the set up and show u how big she is.

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05-03-2005, 12:30 AM
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Seems you are doing fine but there are far more experienced people here to give you their opinion.
I would just point out a couple of things.
- Playsand: a lot of people don't like it because of the risks of impaction. There is plenty of posts about this subject on the forum.
- If she is done with the growth sprout phase, maybe you could/should cut a bit on the crickets. A lot of people don't feed crickets everyday to their Bearded Dragons, being adults or juveniles like yours. Some give crickets every other day and some just 2 or 3 times a week.
- Related to the previous point, maybe veggies in the early morning and crickets when you arrive from school would give her plenty of time to digest breakfast and lunch and start eating first thing in the morning and not those all day warm and soft veggies.
- You don't mention it but I suppose you supplement her diet with calcium and vitamins.
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