Three days after delivery, half the batch is dead and the bin already smells. The cause is almost always one of four things: ammonia from unremoved corpses, humidity too high, a bad water source, or house crickets from a pet shop already near the end of their natural lifespan. Keeping crickets alive for two weeks…
The bearded dragon feeding schedule that works for a three-month-old will cause real health problems in a two-year-old. Most owners know the diet changes as dragons grow, but the specific numbers are where things get unclear fast. Every stage from hatchling to adult is covered below, with the reasoning behind each shift so you can…
Most owners know they should gut load feeder insects. Far fewer actually understand what happens when they skip it. A cricket that has been sitting in a pet store box for three days eating cardboard and stale bran has almost no nutritional value by the time it reaches your dragon. The protein is there. The…
Getting a bearded dragon supplement schedule wrong tends to happen in one of two directions — either the owner is dusting calcium with D3 at every single feeding because they want to be thorough, or they have one powder and no real plan. Both situations cause problems over time, and neither is obvious until the…
Bearded dragon mealworms are sold in every pet shop next to the crickets, which is most of the reason so many owners try them. They are cheap, easy to store, and dragons pursue them with an enthusiasm they rarely show for other feeders. That enthusiasm is part of the problem. Mealworms are not dangerous the…
Wild bearded dragons run across the Australian outback, climb rocks, and survive harsh weather on very little food. Your captive bearded dragon lives in a warm glass box where heavily gut-loaded bugs practically fall from the sky directly into their mouth. In captivity, dragons get fat fast. I used to do this too. Most of…
Getting a bearded dragon to eat a salad is one of the most frustrating parts of reptile keeping. You chop up a beautiful bowl of organic collard greens, top it with bell peppers, and your dragon just glares at it—or worse, tramples it—waiting for the bugs. If you are dealing with a stubborn eater, you…
A growing baby bearded dragon can easily eat 50 to 80 live insects every single day. If you are relying on those small plastic cups of crickets from the local pet store, you are going to bleed money, deal with a terrible smell, and constantly find dead bugs in the container. Switching to Dubia roaches…
The bearded dragon food list question sounds simple until you stand in a grocery store squinting at a bag of spring mix. You try to remember whether spinach blocks calcium or works fine in rotation. The obvious calls are easy enough: avocado never, crickets always. The grey zone is where real mistakes happen. Spinach ends…