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29-Jan-08, 11:11 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Mittagong Age/Gender: 13  | | | feeding mealworms to my beardie
hay i have read somewhere that you have to chop the heads off mealworms when you feed them to young bearded dragons. so do i have to chop the heads off for my 1 year old pygmy bearded dragon
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29-Jan-08, 11:39 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: here | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by collins94  hay i have read somewhere that you have to chop the heads off mealworms when you feed them to young bearded dragons. so do i have to chop the heads off for my 1 year old pygmy bearded dragon
cheers james | Why? |
29-Jan-08, 12:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: NSW | | | | As long as your temps are good, ie; hot and cool spots then there is no problem just chucking them in whole. Personally i believe people who have had problems with mealies are actually having problems with their temps causing the lizard to have trouble digesting.
A little tip, throw a piece of zuccini or apple into your mealworm tub(sprinkle calcium/D3 powder over the vege) then come back an hour or 2 later and it'll be covered with gut loaded mealies, which in my experience are generally soft shelled ones(perhaps the mealies that are near moulting dont feed as much?)
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29-Jan-08, 03:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | it will be fine |
29-Jan-08, 04:37 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Adelaide Age/Gender: 25  | | | | I would only feed them as a treat, there is little nutritional value and they are quite fatty. Don't worry about chopping the heads off, they should get chewed up enough before being swallowed anyway
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29-Jan-08, 04:56 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Blue Mountains | | | | They don't get much out of a mealworm. You'd be better off feeding it woodies or crickets. |
29-Jan-08, 05:17 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Mittagong Age/Gender: 13 | | | | thanks all. I am only feeding it mealworms becouse there was no cricket or woodies left at my local petshop |
02-Feb-08, 07:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: sydney Gender: | | | hey
i got 2 central bearded dragons and i dont feed them mealworms only because i have got sand in my cage
because meal worms only live in the dirt when i let them into my cage they eat the sand and not digest the sand proply then when my beardys eat them they get sick
so what im trying to say is that feed them meaworms unless u got sand in ure cage  | |
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