Cricket Count

[Christopher]

How many crickets does your dragon go through in a day?

I originally wanted to start this thread to answer 2 questions (but I got curious):
> How many small crickets should my 1 month old dragons be eating daily and/or per sitting.
> How much water should they be drinking? I understand they get a lot of their hydration though feeding and absorption but I read somewhere that you can supplement with drinking water. To start out I took advice from that same bit of reading and tried coax them to drink by using a dropper to place a drip and their respective noses. They will lick 1 drop then become completely uninterested. Is this normal?

 

[richard]

10 to 15 appropriately sized crickets twice per day. i supplement my guys water by giving them baths twice a week and as they got older they learned to drink from the tub. just dribble some water over their nose and splash a little. sometimes its seems like they'll drink it all.

 

[bouncer36]

my jessie has been eating these last few day 20 to 24 cricket twice a day and he is 6 in a half inches and weigh 10g

 

[Christopher]

Eesh, mine have been eating 5-6 twice a day. I sure hope changing from a reptisun 5.0 to 10.0 straightens this out.

 

[Dragonsx6]

Getting the proper heating & lighting in your viv will help with his apetite as it needs to be right in order to aid digestion. If these things are wrong, then he will not function normally. Dont feed him anything larger than the space between his eyes.

 

[Brett]

Ya it verys per dragon i have some that eat allot of cricket and little salad some that dont care for insects but go crazy over salad and some that will eat anything you put in front of them.

 

[Missy]

Gobi is almost 9 months old now, and eats large crickets. He gets 6 (to 8) per morning.