Safe Food Guide For Bearded Dragons | Vegetables, Fruits, and Bugs

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good morning reptilians welcome and welcome back to the channel I am El and these are El's reptiles this week we are making a video that I have wanted to make for a while but it's just a lot so let's go Let's talk about

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, we're going to talk about what they're going over quickly, how to prepare those foods and whether or not you can feed them all the time or if you can only feed them one street, we'll go over all the details just a little. disclaimer this is not an exhaustive list this is just a list of the most commonly fed

vegetables

and another disclaimer I live in the United States and I know Many of these are not called what we call them in other countries and I am very sorry if that is the case.

I don't know what things are called elsewhere and I'd like to apologize for that before we start. This video is sponsored by IO. so make sure you stay until the end of the video to find out everything about this amazing company, let's start, first the

vegetables

, let's talk about the vegetables that you can feed on a daily basis, so the first vegetables that we are going to talk about are all of the green leaf. greens and specific types of lettuce, these should be the base of your salad, which you would make one or two, it would be great if you could do this daily, these are things like mustard greens, collard greens, leafy greens, clove greens of dandelion, green dandelion leaves, usually the beer dragon's favorite, you can In fact, also feed the dandelion flowers, you don't have to feed just the green leaves and, in the dive, the The only real preparation you have to do is just cut them into small pieces and I also like to cut the stems off just because it's big and a little hard to chew, hard to digest, in fact, I cut the stems off and feed them to my feeders. for my roaches, mealworms and superworms and all those, they all get the stems when I cut it.

Here's a great tip I've discovered over the years, if you buy the uncut green, cut it yourself, and store it in a freezer bag in the bottom of your refrigerator, it lasts about three times longer than if you buy the preut. Vegetables that are already bagged and washed and anything you cut yourself will last much longer and are usually about half the price. Then we have squash, these can also be fed every day, like butternut squash and acorn squash spaghetti. squash yellow squash, they are amazing to put on top of the bed of leafy greens because they are brightly colored so they add a contrast to the vegetables you are feeding, although they require a little more preparation unlike greens because they usually Generally they will have to be softened somehow, so you have a few different options here, number one, you can go to the freezer department of any supermarket and just buy the pre-cut organic pumpkin cubes that they are usually found in, like the microwavable bags, the ones that you just put in warm water and thaw the cubes in warm water and they are super soft and you can feed them that way if you want to go the Fresh Route, you have a couple different options there as well.

You can cut them up and boil them to soften them or you can just use a cheese grater and just grate the squash on the cheese grater and you will get very thin little pieces that are soft enough for your bearded dragon to consume and small enough. To get them to consume it, just make sure you don't give them the hard pieces of raw pumpkin. Now let's move on to the vegetables that you would give more occasionally, so by occasionally I mean not every day to elaborate a little more here since occasionally is such a vague term and not daily is super pragmatic, you can do each of these like once a week so maybe one day you offer a little bit of one in the salad and the next day you offer a little bit different of these in the salad just mix it up variety is key this category is pretty big but it's okay because if you are mixing up your bearded dragons food provides a wide variety of different things you could put in there in this category we have things like carrots and bok choy peppers zaz loves peppers asparagus artichoke carts celery cucumber kale I often say don't Kale is a staple food, but you can feed it occasionally lentils.

Sprouted lentils are usually very preferred among bearded dragons, don't feed them every day, but they are amazing because you just take lentils that are super cheap, soak them in water, you put them on a damp paper towel and leave them on the counter for a couple of days and they will sprout and you can throw them in your bearded. rodico dragon salad okra cilantro zucchini and even yam, if it is something larger like asparagus or squash, again make sure they are in small pieces and if it is hard like raw squash, make sure to use either a grater cheese and grate it or boil it until it softens enough for them to eat and as for

fruits

because bearded dragons are supposed to have some fruit in their diet, basically all of them will occasionally grow a beard. too much dragon fruit is very sugary and can cause obesity.

The only fruit that is okay to give every day is prickly pear. This is actually what bearded dragon bites are made of, which is what I usually suggest if your bearded dragon is struggling to eat, but most other

fruits

are fine, as I mentioned in my dangerous food video I made a few years ago. couple of month. You want to avoid things like citrus fruits, anything that has a high acid content. You want to avoid giving them that just because it will. give them an upset stomach there are a lot of dangerous things don't feed your bearded dragon anything that is toxic like any type of ivy or plants you find outside unless you know what you are doing don't give them avocados try to avoid them things again like citrus.

I'll leave a full list of safe and unsafe fruits and vegetables in the description below and that list also shows you whether or not you need to cook them and whether you need to cut them into smaller pieces. pieces, it also shows some of the nutritional facts for each of those fruits and vegetables, so be sure to check it out and definitely bookmark that website and check it out if you ever have questions because that's what I do and now let's talk about some. Popular insect options for bearded dragons. The first and probably the most popular will be crickets.

Crickets are a good staple food. They are not my favorites for several different reasons. They don't fill much. It takes a lot of crickets to fill your Dragon Beer, they are a bit stinky to keep, they don't make great guests in the house, they are very noisy, many times they also come with parasites and can increase the risk of your bearded dragon getting parasites, but yes crickets are the only thing he has access to. Then you can use crickets, just make sure you get them from a safe and reliable source. I have never had a problem with Josh's FRX crickets.

I have had problems with crickets from pet stores and I never get them from bait stores or Walmart where they are selling crickets to go fishing and probably the second most popular option will be roaches in many places it will be dubies roaches dubies roaches They are super rich in protein, they are super satiating and it is much better to keep them. This sounds like an adre, it is not an adre, in my opinion, it is much better to keep them than crickets because they are not noisy; However, if you live in a place like Florida or I believe Hawaii, where dubie roaches are illegal, you also have the option of discoid roaches.

Discoid roaches look quite similar to dubie roaches. They are very nutritionally similar to dubie roaches. Keeping them is very similar to roaches dubies they don't climb smooth surfaces they are very quiet if you don't have access to any of those you also have the option of red runners red runners I can't I can't handle red runners but a lot of people feed red runners to bearded dragons. Dark Den's Petco uses them for their tarantulas because they move very fast and the tarantulas like them. that grass dragons also like red runners to be very nutritious. The thing about red runners is that they come out, they will infest your house, they will reproduce quickly and they can take over and I don't run that risk, especially if I have kids in my house, that's something.

If you are sure it won't escape then red runners are also an option and move on to worm feeders. Silkworms are by far the best, they are very nutritionally healthy, however silkworms are hard to find, at least where I am, they are tough. They can be found and are a little more expensive, but many people who don't want to deal with things like cockroaches and crickets often opt for a worm mix and Sil worms are one of those options for baby bearded dragons that have black soldier larvae. . They are super small, you can give them to adult bearded dragons, especially in salads.

They really like them and are encouraged to eat them because the salad will move around, but as a staple food for adult bearded dragons, they are a little small. They are high in calcium so you don't even need to dust them, you can just feed them as is and they are pretty easy to keep alive, then we have mealworms and superworms, these worms are not the best, mealworms flour has a very high proportion. Kitten cats have a lot of shell and not a lot of nutrients to support that amount of shell and if the conditions in your tank are not perfect, that large amount of shell can be difficult for bearded dragons to digest, especially baby bearded dragons and could cause impaction problems if you have to give worms to your bearded dragon.

I highly recommend feeding freshly ground whites because they are all soft and will be very easy for your animal to digest. Superworms are something else. option, they are high in fat because they are a little larger, their outer shell to inner shell ratio will be a little better than mealworms, they will find it easier to digest because superworms will only be if they are given to adults, they are high in fat, definitely make sure you feed other things as well and then we have wax worms and butterworms, these are definitely high in fat, they should really only be fed as a treat and to keep the wax worms I'm not entirely sure about butterworms, but to keep waxworms you have to keep them at a very specific cold temperature or else they will die if kept too hot and will turn into moths if you have an animal that is will eat the moths then that's fine, otherwise feeding them as a treat unless you have a lot of animals to give treats to might be a bit wasteful and the last insect we're going to talk about, obviously there are a lot more insects to eat. they feed that exist, but the last one we are going to talk about are hornworms.

Hornworms are often another favor of bearded dragons. Zaz didn't like these until she was an adult and I have learned from comments that this is the type of This is also the case with other bearded dragons, not all, just some other bearded dragons, they can get very large, as with all insects here, make sure you don't feed anything larger than the size between their eyes, they are very tall. in water content, so if your bearded dragon is having difficulty going to the bathroom or hasn't used the bathroom in a while, buy some horn warmer in the right size for him and that will usually solve the problem, but That is all that I have. for this week's video let me know in the comments below what your bearded dragon's favorite food is, like I said at the beginning of this video this video is sponsored by iard geckos iard geckos is an awesome place to get conversion kits for tanks you can Reptiles generally prefer to be reached and grabbed from the front rather than from above because in the wild their predators will grab them from above so they like to be reached from the face.

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