How much food should you feed a water dragon?

Question

He is about 1.5 feet long.

Answer 1

Food items of the appropriate size should be offered to your dragon. As a general rule the size of the food item should be no longer than the length of the head, and no wider than half the width of the head, and preferably about one third the width of the head.

I believe a healthy diet would be a combination of all of the above diet items, using as wide a variety of each item as possible, in the ratio of:

* Insects 40% - 50%
* Earthworms 10% - 20%
* Whole Prey 40% - 20%
* Fruit & Veggies 10%
o (If possible, otherwise increase % of whole prey)

Insects and earthworms should be gut loaded, and dusted with calcium supplement approximately every second day, dusted with vitamins once a week; It couldn't hurt to add some supplementation to the fruit and veggies if the dragon is eating them; unless it's pinkies that is being offered as the whole prey food item calcium supplementation shouldn't have to be added to these food items.

Dragons receiving diets lower in whole prey food items should of course be getting more calcium supplementation than dragons getting higher quantities of whole prey.

Please see my "Diet of water dragons" page http://www.triciaswaterdragon.com/diet.htm for more information.

Answer 2

I have chinese water dragons and I offer them a mix of fruits and veggies every other day and mealworms waxworms and crickets every day. I feed them however much they choose to eat when they aren't hungry they will usually stop eating, but if you have australian water dragons I would assume it should be the same but I am not sure.