Hey guys i know if i posted this kind of question over on the tort side of the forum i would be liable for a flaming, but i think on here we can have a grown up conversation!

I have seen people saying tht the dried food is a bad staple diet for baby and adult BDs. Im just wondering why that is? looking over some of zoo meds stuff and it says it contains all the neccasary (SP) daliy req. of a beardy. So you canget these freeze dried crikects aswell in a can, if someone was to feed these along with a dried food suppliment (from what i can tell made mainly of dandylion greens) would this not keep the BD healthy?

Im not saying you guys/gals are wrong im just wondering whats so bad about them? Plus my new baby still wont eat crickets. but thats another post!

Cheers
Greg

Theres nothing bad about them- just beardies dont want to eat them!

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oh right, so its not like the tort pellets that hve like to much protien in them? Hmm i miht try some of them then as my BD wont eat anything anyway.

I dont rate the dry food. When i bought my first ever beardie 2 years ago i bought her dry food and she wouldnt touch it.
Only thing its good for is gut loading the crickets.lol
I still have the dry food today.(its still in date till next year)
As for freeze dried crickets, there is a good chance the beardie wont even be interested, it needs to be moving for it to be interested.
You can buy these vibrating food dishes but NAH.
Its not for me.

Jag.

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i brought some for my male beardie a month or so ago and he aint touched it,tried mixing it in with the veg aswell but still no joy.
i personaly think it's a waste of money

Hmm so its just a promblem with getting em to eat it. dunno wether to try it or not them. just liked the thought of bining these stinking crics!

I've never heard reports of nutritional deficiency from the artificial BD diets... however the only people I know use them, have brought up the BDs from birth on the pellets. If you start them on livefood they usually won't even look twice at the pellets.

You can get the dried mealworms and crickets and now the automatic vivicator (vibrating dish), but I have never personally used it. Not sure beardies are that stupid!

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I've never managed to get a dragon eating pellets long term, so I don't know about the long-term effects. If it stacks up nutritionally (and you'd have to check that yourself by calculating the %s of each nutrient group in a livefood / veg diet vs a dried food diet), there's no reason why it shouldn't be used. Good luck getting them to even look at it though...

As for the tortoise thing - as no-one can actually tell you how much protein a tortoise needs in their diet, I find it hard to believe that the same people can turn around and say "I have no idea how much a tort needs, but the dried foods clearly have too much..." That's not a debate for this forum though - you would be much better off speaking to someone like -EJ about it...

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Pros - it contains loads of good stuff


Cons - THEY HATE IT.

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