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I'd venture to guess they weren't eating a WHOLE lot of greens for you.
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The adults did, but with the babies it was normally an individual thing, some ate greens fairly well while others were a few weeks old before they showed any interest in them.
The adults would eat a a fairly good portion of greens mixed with other vegetables daily, I always gave them the salad before insects just to try to get something in their stomach and cut down on the number of bugs I went through.
The most important thing to me was over the entire time I raised the beardeds I never had a single instance of conspecific agression among hatchlings, not one nipped tail or toes. I felt as long as they wanted more to eat, give it to them, and I feel this played a big part in preventing the nipped tails and such that happens regularly.
It was never a question of how many they needed, but what they wanted.
It should also be noted that I did always err on the side of caution regarding cricket sizes, so the 4-5 crickets the babies would eat three times per day may possibly not equal the same mass as what you might feed them yourself.