A couple of weeks ago I received a gift card for Petsmart. I'm not really a big fan, but it is a short trip for grabbing crickets and wax worms, so I figure "It's a few free meals for Zero, Josie, and Creepy, so what the hey". When I stopped to get crickets and wax worms, I thought I'd try something new and get a cup of meal worms to see how Zero liked them. I've done research and read books saying that you can feed meal worms to adults and larger sub-adults, but never young ones because their "shell" was difficult to digest. Well both of our dragons are at least over a year old, so I didn't see that being a problem.
I got home, fed a few to Zero, fed a few to Josie, and even gave Creepy a couple - And of course they were all over it. They've all been doing great since, and acting perfectly normal and regular. Well just today when I was browsing on georgia bearded dragons web site, just for the fun of it I looked under "What not to feed your bearded dragon" and at the top of the list was meal worms. Further in the paragraph it stated that a woman had fed her bearded dragon meal worms and the next day it died. A thought bubble literally appeared above my head and inside it I could clearly read "WTF!?".
In the same paragraph, it also stated that super worms were a safer alternative... At this point, I had to step back and ask myself if this article's nose would continue to grow as I read on. I've seen super worms chew through plastic, and anyone I've spoke with said you had to cut their heads off before feeding to your pet otherwise they'd chew right through your poor pet's tummy. As far as hard shells are concerned, roaches have a pretty durable shell, and beardies have no trouble digesting them. Am going nuts or do I have reason to worry? Has anyone actually had a bad experience with meal worms?
I got home, fed a few to Zero, fed a few to Josie, and even gave Creepy a couple - And of course they were all over it. They've all been doing great since, and acting perfectly normal and regular. Well just today when I was browsing on georgia bearded dragons web site, just for the fun of it I looked under "What not to feed your bearded dragon" and at the top of the list was meal worms. Further in the paragraph it stated that a woman had fed her bearded dragon meal worms and the next day it died. A thought bubble literally appeared above my head and inside it I could clearly read "WTF!?".
In the same paragraph, it also stated that super worms were a safer alternative... At this point, I had to step back and ask myself if this article's nose would continue to grow as I read on. I've seen super worms chew through plastic, and anyone I've spoke with said you had to cut their heads off before feeding to your pet otherwise they'd chew right through your poor pet's tummy. As far as hard shells are concerned, roaches have a pretty durable shell, and beardies have no trouble digesting them. Am going nuts or do I have reason to worry? Has anyone actually had a bad experience with meal worms?
