When it comes to what you should feed your beardie, and how often, here are some helpful tips to follow:
- Bearded dragon babies, juveniles, and adults all have different diets to follow, since they have different dietary needs for each stage of their lives. Babies typically require a diet consisting of 60% live foods (insects) and 40% greens/veggies. Once they reach adulthood these ratios will switch to 60% greens/veggies and 40% bugs. Young beardies will voraciously eat about twice a day, while adults will only eat once a day or every other day. Make sure your dragons always have food available every day regardless of whether or not they eat every time you offer food.
- Beardies require a stable source of protein, which is typically obtained through insects. Bearded dragons are normally not too picky and will eat crickets, mealworms, superworms, silkworms, or even roaches.