-Your bearded dragon will need a stable balance of vegetables and live food. Juvenile bearded dragons prefer live food. As you pet grows they will begin to prefer veggies. You should offer both food regardless of preference, so that your dragon will learn to eat both.
Types of food to offer:
Live food
Crickets
Meal worms
Wax worms
King worms
Earth worms
Cockroaches
Super worms
Pinkie mice
Fruits and Vegetables
Collards
Escarole
Kale
Clover
Turnip Greens
Mustard Greens
Broccoli
Okra
Green beans
Zucchini
Squash
Carrots
Kiwi
Melon
Apples
Grapes
Strawberries
Bananas
Live food should be offered twice a day. Vegetables and fruits should be available at all times in your dragons cage. The dragons last meal should be placed in their tank 2 hours prior to lights out. All live food should be removed before lights out, to prevent any unwanted biting or pestering to your sleeping dragon.
Feeding the Food:
-Live food and vegetables should be prepared with supplements. Live food should be gut loaded 48 hours prior to consumption. Gut loading is feeding the live food vitamin enriched supplements that will transfer to your dragon once they're fed. I prefer Flukers brand cricket food.
Calcium is also important for your pet. Calcium powder should be dusted on all live food immediately before feedings. I also use Flukers brand calcium and D3 powder.
These are the products that I use to feed my lizards.
Hygiene:
-Cleaning your pets cage is extremely important. Uneaten, decomposing food will cause bacteria to flourish and spread under the high heat lights within your dragons cage. Adult dragons will generally kick sand(if available) over their uneaten food. If there's a water supply within the cage, it can cause for a messy pet if there's sand substrate. A wet dragon who runs through his enclosure will collect quite a bit of sand on his body. I bathe my dragons in 2-3 inches of warm water in the bathtub. You can use a clean, unused tooth brush to gently scrub dirt or feces off of your dragon.
Giving your dragon a bath a few times a week is another great way of hydrating them. Baths can also be used as a way to help compacted dragons have bowel movements.
Your new bearded dragon pet requires a nutritious, well-balanced diet in order to grow healthy and strong. It is important to offer both insects and fresh greens, since bearded dragon's are omnivores. As a baby, the lizard will only eat insects and should be fed insects that are soft-bodied and the proper size.Bearded dragon diet
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