Jaycies
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When I start off feeding mine as a baby, what should I be sure to offer?
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Best Diet for a Baby Beardie
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Bushmaster11B
Juvenile Dragon
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Crickets, phoenix worms, silk worms (if they are small enough for your BD) and always offer greened diced up. I use collard greens and butternut squash plus miniature grapes when he did eat greens as a reward.
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Hi, the feeder suggestions above are great. In addition it is great to feed them twice a day. Let the dragon eat as much as he wants to in a 15 minute period. Remove any feeders between feedings.
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Bushmaster11B
Juvenile Dragon
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Thanks Gill. I forgot the other details.
Jaycies
Juvenile Dragon
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Thank you! We did crickets for the first time this morning as they had already eaten twice yesterday when we brought them home. What an experience that was to chase after uneaten crickets (about 5 of them) after 15 minutes! Oh my! 
Bushmaster11B
Juvenile Dragon
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Be prepared, baby BD's are cricket destroying machines! If crickets get to be expensive for you, you can buy 1/4" nymph Roaches depending on how big your baby is. They are much more filling and have more meat on them as well. I had to because Aries was costing me $50 in crickets per month. I was ordering 1000 and was getting about 20-30% die off. How old and long is your baby BD?
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Jaycies
Juvenile Dragon
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She's (if indeed she is a "she") four months and about 6" inches long. Are roaches just as tricky to clean up after?
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Personally, if I'm feeding inside the enclosure, I leave a few uneaten crix or roaches in the enclosure for that opportunistic Hunt & snack between feedings. Being sure that they are all removed more than an hour or two prior to lights out.
The reason I say 'If' I feed in the enclosure, is that I feed Discoid Roaches as their staple live prey & I use a Play Sand substrate. Roaches are burrowers & will almost immediately disappear by burrowing into the sand to get out of the light. So I must feed them in a separate enclosure or Hand Feed. When I treat them to Crickets for a periodic change up, they are always fed in the enclosure.
Roaches are a little easier to catch, because they don't hop
. But they will be hiding in the dark areas, so it generally means having to move everything also, to catch them, similar to Crix.
The reason I say 'If' I feed in the enclosure, is that I feed Discoid Roaches as their staple live prey & I use a Play Sand substrate. Roaches are burrowers & will almost immediately disappear by burrowing into the sand to get out of the light. So I must feed them in a separate enclosure or Hand Feed. When I treat them to Crickets for a periodic change up, they are always fed in the enclosure.
Roaches are a little easier to catch, because they don't hop
. But they will be hiding in the dark areas, so it generally means having to move everything also, to catch them, similar to Crix.