Do her markings mean gravid?

[Azaria]

I was feeding her 10-12 crickets a day with supplements, and the crickets were all fed with various vegetables I have around for the beardies, as well as orange cube, and high protein cricket diet. Also I bought her wax worms a couple times and would give her 4 or 5 most days til they were gone.

But she's hardly eating this week, so it's kinda all up in the air. the last of the wax worms are in one of the cups I feed her with at the bottom, trying to coax her into eating something, but so far, I dunno.

Also she's shedding. it seems like a slow process. not fast, like the beardies or my snake.

 

[ChameleonNerd]

i don't know if you said this Azaria, but how large is she? from nose to cloaca in inches. also from nose to tail. and how big are these crickets you speak of? if you tell us, we can tell you the appropriate amount of crickets to feed her daily, or every other day

 

[Azaria]

I can't tell you these things because she does not allow handling. I can guess she is about 5-6 inches long in body and her tail might be 4-5 inches, it's hard to say.

The crickets I buy are called 'large' but they are really only 'medium'. when I first started feeding my beardies large crickets they really were large but just something about the cricket suppliers around here, I've noticed their size going down. Or the demand for crickets going up, not sure.

but they are smallish large crickets or largish medium crickets, however you want to look at it.

she doesn't always finish her crickets which is fine because the beardies will ALWAYS snap up a few more. but thinking about it more, I'd say she really only ate 8-10 a day in two sittings. sometimes more. sometimes less, depending if I accidentally touched her or something, anything to change her mood.

 

[ChameleonNerd]

well, can you measure your average cricket for us?

 

[Azaria]

Sure, they are about 3/4 inch, to 1 inch. about 1 in 10 are over that size but she crunches them without a problem.