Bearded Dragon Diet and Breeding Tips

Food : They are omnivorous , with a wide range of insects and fruits and vegetables . When the specimen is usually baby feeding insects, crickets normally , and we will be adding growth to their diet variety of fruit and vegetables always fresh . As adults always to and supply them with fresh vegetables and give live food such as crickets, about twice a week.

There are also some baby bearded dragon feed , but I can not advise because not much about them personally prefer things alive and fresh . We must not forget the weekly vitamin content and calcium to prevent bone softening . Calcium would be supplied by 3 to 4 times weekly and vitamins 2 times a week , provided separately , ie , one day and another day calcium vitamins not both on the same day. You can choose to give a guy rodent to strengthen its protein and calcium intake.

Sex differences : The male has a pore marked preanal and two bundles corresponding to the hemipenes , also the male is larger than the female.

Breeding : They usually have a courtship ritual before mating , so give them time to prepare your camcorder or photos. The baby bearded dragons become sexually mature at two years of life and are often fertile during your next 4 to 5 years to achieve ovulation in the female and the preparation of the male, we give a small wintering reducing him temperature about 3 ° less than the current and photoperiod to 8 hours of light for about 10 weeks .

After all that will normal values ​​of temperature and photoperiod . When vera preparations are the male it goes in search of the female inflating his beard and shaking his head in exaggerated form , the colour of its tail may darken as his beard , the female will stay put in the substrate and flattened tail lift . The male will bite the neck and use his hemipenes to fertilize .

The gestation of the eggs within the female lasts a month or month and a half , to lay their eggs leave a container with moist vermiculite or perlite and deposited between 8 and 12 eggs being more eggs by age. To keep moist vermiculite will use a weight, will 100 grams of vermiculite and will add another 100 grams of water, we will revise the weight of taper or container deveria despite 200gramos , and lack of weight will add water until you are in 200 grams other time . Incubation of the eggs take between 8 to 10 weeks , keeping a constant temperature of 28 º .

At birth, will not eat until after about 3 or 4 days and then feed them with proper living insect the size of your mouth and calcium. It is advisable not to give worms because their high fat could significantly harm the vitticeps and even lead to death . Before raising this species should be sure to have enough to put the pups separate to avoid clashes space.