Mealies for beardys?

[ReptileMan27]

I have kept beardys in the past, both were mean as heck, sold the one and traded the other for my milksnakes. Anyways I was recently asked to take a couple beardys from someone who cant keep them anymore, I told them I would take them. I was just wondering about the mealies thing, heard bad things about them for beardys but their have been alot of stupid rumors going around about mealies that arent true. Are they fine for beardys or?

 

[Nigel4less]

I feed my beardie a couple mealies everyday and crickets ofcourse should be fed. Anyway hope this helps!

 

[Nastynotch]

my beardie was raised on mostly mealworms and parsley. And hes about 19inches long at 10 months.

 

[herpencounter]

There fine for them never had any problems.


Yes it has been a very long time.

 

[Alusdra]

They do better with catching them if you feed the supers. The regular guys are rather small and hard for them to spot/ pick up.

 

[herpencounter]

If u do supers you can just put them in the 1 at a time... if you do the small ones (reg mellies) then put them in a glass type dish about 2 inches deep.

 

[Perefalcon]

oooh question on similar subject.........what about giant mealies?

 

[herpencounter]

Same.

 

[herpencounter]

Oh! But I would not give them to anything under a year old.

 

[herpencounter]

Wait are you talking about giants or supers (some people call supers giants)?

 

[herpencounter]

oooh question on similar subject.........what about giant mealies?

OK sorry about all the posts.

You said a question on similar subject.
Mellies are fine for all ages.
Giant mellies (just before pupa) are fine also just make sure there not to big for them.
Suppers they should be a good year or so old before you feed them (very hard shell compared to reg mellies).

Sorry for all the posts but that answered your question right?

 

[ReptileMan27]

Okay thanks

 

[Perefalcon]

yeah, it did, I know supers were fine, but preferably just post shed, but I was refering to giant mealies just to clear that up

 

[aplusreptiles]

Ask your supplier if they feed growth hormones to the giant mealies! A lot of them do. That's how they get so big and don't morph into beetles. Just a heads up.

 

[ReptileMan27]

I always thought supers were just big mealies lol, they look the same to me lol

 

[herpencounter]

Ask your supplier if they feed growth hormones to the giant mealies! A lot of them do. That's how they get so big and don't morph into beetles. Just a heads up.

That’s true forgot.


reptileman27- Nope there a diff type of mealie and you cant put them in fridge. There bigger and wont always go to beetles (but I had 2 before go to beetles I feed them to the bds lol:main_laugh: )
Thats why most pepl dont breed them (you like that right pepl).

Reg mealies are easy to get them in to beetles (I feed them off to never thought about keeping for breeding).

 

[ReptileMan27]

Any good places to buy supers online?, I recently ordered 2000 mealies from wormans worm farm, not sure if they sell supers to though..

 

[herpencounter]

WHy you want suppers?
Reg large melies are much better IMO.

 

[ReptileMan27]

WHy you want suppers?
Reg large melies are much better IMO.

O, I thought supers were suppost to be better then regular mealies?. Thats fine if regular mealies are better, I have reg mealies for my leos.

 

[herpencounter]

Like I said that's IMO.

PS. just fund out last night that suppers wont pupate if there not solo that’s why I only had 2 (explains allot right there).