A bearded dragon will throw itself at a superworm with more enthusiasm than almost any other feeder. That eagerness is exactly why keepers second-guess them. Superworms for bearded dragons sit in an awkward spot. They are safe enough that most adults eat them happily, yet fatty enough to cause real problems when they become a…
A pinky looks like the ultimate treat: soft, protein-packed, and most dragons hit it the second it twitches on the tongs. The instinct to offer one is reasonable. The execution is where keepers go wrong. So can bearded dragons eat pinky mice? Yes, an adult dragon can eat one safely, but only as a rare…
Your dragon spots the strawberry before it hits the dish and practically climbs the bowl for it. The greens you put down an hour ago sit untouched. It is tempting to give in and make fruit the daily reward, because at least then something gets eaten. So can bearded dragons eat fruit every day? Not…
A bearded dragon that skips a meal or two is not a dragon in trouble. A healthy adult can go a week or two without food and stay perfectly fine. A baby that misses two days needs your attention. How long bearded dragons can go without eating depends almost entirely on age, body condition, season,…
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. The diet shifts as your dragon grows, 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 adjust when…
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 calcium is not. Gut loading feeder insects in the 24 to 72 hours before feeding is what closes that…
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 damage…
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…