Opuntia?

[Xoek]

I heard dragons can eat opuntia. Is this true, and would this be a specific type of opuntia, or the ones that grow around my house?

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[PatsyB]

If it's the type that you can eat then it's the type your dragon can eat. Just make sure you cut out the spikes. Cactus pad, Nopales, are a great staple for bearded dragons. They can even eat the prickly pear fruit, if you take the seeds out.

 

[Xoek]

We can eat them, I just don't bother to. They seem like more trouble than they're worth

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[PatsyB]

I use a veggie peeler just go get the spikes off. I rarely find them here. They are actually very nutritious and an every day food for them.

 

[Hdrydr31]

I feed mine pads and the fruit often most of our stores here carry the pads and in summer the fruit.. I just pick the thorns off (here in the stores they don't seem to have that many so pretty simple).. cut them up and de seed the fruit.

 

[KrissyLeigh]

How finely do you have to cut them?

I was so excited when I saw this post, they grow native down here and make a staple part of my tortoises diet, so I always have them around.

 

[Hdrydr31]

How finely do you have to cut them?

I was so excited when I saw this post, they grow native down here and make a staple part of my tortoises diet, so I always have them around.

just get the thorns off and cut them to size for your beardie so little pieces is fine.

 

[PatsyB]

I use a veggie peeler to get the thorns off then just chop it into pieces.