dusting food

[frank]

Hi all I have a two year old male beardie and I was wondering how often i should be dusting his food with calcium.
Cheers

[puffdaddy]

Well first off you should have multi-vitamin too that you could buy at pet stores and dust the insects every feeding. If your beardie is two years old you should be giving him 80% vegetable matter and 20% insects. This should even out to about 20 crix a week. As far as dusting goes you should alternate the calcium and multi-vitamin between feedings or every other day. You need to make sure you have a strip uvb bulb. the best one you can get is a reptisun and your beardie has to be within 6 inches of the uvb to get some of its rays. UVB helps the lizard to absorb all of its calcium.

[puffdaddy]

Okay sorry frank and thanks for correcting me crystal

[frank]

Cheers guys, that's what I thought `perfectly_flawed` just wanted to hear it from an expert, now in the last two years my beardie, Charlie,  has suffered with parasites twice so its been a pain feeding him its only in the last month that he has started eating regularly after coming out of a partial brumation but he will not eat any type of veg/greens any further advise would be greatly appreciated.