Feeding mealworms

[Koviack]

Is it alright to feed juvenile beardies dusted mealworms instead of crickets? mealworms seem alot easier to use as feed instead of crickets. After you guys order/buy crickets from wherever do you put them in a box to hold them until the next day if your dragon can't eat them all the day you bought them? How do you get them out and into a bag to feed the dragons with out them jumping out/all over the place?

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[eddie]

Yeah, you can feed both crix and mealies to them.

We don't have beardies, but we do have many others that eat crix and mealies.
We get them about a weeks supply at the time for crix, keep them in a 5 gallon with a screen lid and use a small critter carrier to shake the crix into, dust and then to deliver to the critters.
Works really great that way, with few escapes and easier to dust and deliver.

Below is the critter carrier we use to dust the crix and to transport them from the crix tank to the animals tanks.
Easy to use.
Flip the hatch open, insert the entire carrier into the crix tank, skake crix off the egg crate directly into the hatch, close it, add the dusting powder of your choice, shake gently, then place into the animals tank with the entire lid off and on its side.

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[Ace]

the only thing wrong with feeding mealworms is that I have heard that you have to cut the heads off of them, has any one else heard of this.

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[NicoleRussell]

Originally Posted by Ace

the only thing wrong with feeding mealworms is that I have heard that you have to cut the heads off of them, has any one else heard of this.

nope silly rumor.
Nr

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[NicoleRussell]

Originally Posted by Koviack

Is it alright to feed juvenile beardies dusted mealworms instead of crickets? mealworms seem alot easier to use as feed instead of crickets. After you guys order/buy crickets from wherever do you put them in a box to hold them until the next day if your dragon can't eat them all the day you bought them? How do you get them out and into a bag to feed the dragons with out them jumping out/all over the place?

there is no doubt beardies love crickets...no matter what I feed mine he still goes ape sh!t over them and so I don't cut them out (as much as I would love to).
Not only that but mealies are hard to dust...nutitionally they are not as healthy as crickets either.
I keep mine (crickets) in a big home depot storage bin with about 5 or 6 paper towel holders--you know the card board thing that's left after you finish the PT's-- (I order like 2000 bugs at a time ).
When it's time to harvest I take one of the paper towel holders (which is always filled with crix) then I dump the bugs into a big plastic pitcher and dump the pitcher into the cages....
Keep a heat source in there or they will die...also ventilation is required or the moisture will kill them.
I cut the top out of my storage conatainers and put an old sheet across the top using the plastic frame to hold it in place--
-there in a nut shell is my method.
Good luck!
NR

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