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I saw their ad in Reptiles magazine and was thinking about trying them with my beardie. Is anyone familiar with their service?
Thanks,
Josh
 
I cant tell how large your dragon is from the pic you posted. Unless it is really young, it should probably be able to eat regular mealies or young mealies. I've never fed my dragons mini mealworms so I cant tell you first hand. Crickets can be purchased from your local cricket breeder in any size to suit your growing dragon and are in my opinion a better food than mealworms or mini-mealworms.

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That is too young to digest the chitin based shelling in mealworms. Stick with right size crickets, silks and greens. you call also add Pellet food to their diet, like Rep_Cal juvie pellets. Those meet all their nutritional needs safely
 
if its the ad posted where it shows a small baby beardie and a larger beardie. i would like to tell everyone that the larger beardie is atleast 2-3 weeks older than the other one, no ammount of calcium robbing mealies will make one that much bigger.....

i had the displeasure of talking to the owner of minimealworms.com (on anotherforum) and he said the picture was submitted by a user and wasnt even their own (minimealworms.com) pictures or dragons...... so they have no clue, but what that guy had said that their mealworms made that much improvement.
 
lol, Mark and Aimee,

As long as I have been around reptiles, I still find some extreme new ones all the time too. That one is new to me also, so I am curious of the theory behind it.

I just learned on another forum that you should not soak or mist bearded dragons when they are shedding..... now I guess we have to tell Mader, Klingenberg, Jacobson and the others that they are wrong and need to change ;)

BTW> those that do not recognize sarcasm.. that is it above
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let me clarify, since i realized i worded that kind of wrong. when i meant calcium robbing is that mealworms have a worser CA:pH ratio. so if you would feed it a diet of mealworms your robbing it of the calcium that a decent feeder insect would provide...


Crickets | Meal Worms
Moisture,% 69.07 | 62.44
Fat,% 6.01 | 12.72
Protein,% 21.32 | 20.27
Fiber,% 3.2 | 1.73
Ash 2.17 | 1.57
Ca, ppm 345 | 133
P, ppm 4238 | 3345
CA/P ratio,% 0.081 | 0.040

(figures based upon chart a found on grubco.com)

now i know these figures are of mealworms, not minimealworms. the problem is that the guy himself will only provide this much information about his mini mealies.

48.31% protein
40.46% crude fat
43.05% dry matter
56.95% moisture
2.92% ash

he fails to provide a vital part of the information about the CA:to PH balance and levels. since we are talking about baby beardies a nice calcium intake is a must. so, if the picture on the website is comparing a cricket eating beardie to a mealworm eating beardie, who would really be bigger?

whats also questionable is the percents on his page... it adds up to almost 200%? now, how does that work out???
 
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