How much does it cost you to feed your BTS a week?

[skiblits]

I'm planning on bringing home my bts in a few months and just trying to budget properly so I'm taking a kind of 'poll'.
How old is your BTS?
How much do your feed your BTS a week?
What is included in the diet you feed?

Thanks for the help everyone!

[skiblits]

I forgot to add the important questions.

How much does it cost you a month?

[Almostinsane]

I spent a maximum of 20 dollars a month. I am thinking more around 10-15. I use Wellness Adult chicken Formula, and I get my dandelion greens from outside in the summer, so obviously it will cost a bit more in Fall/Winter/Spring months when the snow is still on the ground. I would just write down the amount that you spend for the first few months and figure out for yourself. some skinks eat more than others.

[Coomassie]

I feed Coomassie bugs, greens, chicken, and a pelleted diet. The bugs I raise. The greens I buy for $2.99 a bag (they are mixed collard, kale, and mustard) and it feeds Coomassie, the roach colonies, and my leopard tortoise Herbert. The chicken is a little bit from what my husband makes for dinner. And the pelleted diet costs about $30 with shipping and a bottle last me about 9 months. So, I don't know what that adds up to exactly but I think it is probably less than $2 a week.

[Spindown]

about $15 (give or take) a month for 4 blueys here...
~1 month~
*big can of pedigree with chopped beef x2 ($3)
*1 big bag collard greens x1 ($3)
*zucchini squash x2 ($4)
*whatever bugs i have on hand plus random skink-edible table scraps and fruit ($5)

my goal is to get a roach colony going and superworms at some point too...

[WanderingChai]

I have one skink who is 1 and almost 5 months old. I spend a maximum of $5 a month on her. I still live with my parents and we eat all-organic food almost all the time, so I just take whats on hand. Right now she's costing me nothing to feed, because I can just go out to our garden and pick fresh organic greens.

I just use earthworms right from the ground. We have never used any chemicals of any sort in the ground for as long as we have lived here (4 1/2 years) and I personally think its safe.

[reaperreptiles]

I only feed once a week for my adults so about max $3 a week for them. Beetlejuice eats every day so a little more on her, probably max $6 for her until i move her to every other day feedings. I feed wellness food as well, its a great food having no grains or gluten and being full of veggies and fruits. I mix in extra greens when I feed wellness and a large bag of veggies cost me about $1 a month. I give a few crickets here and there to beetlejuice to keep up her interst and food drive but i already have those in large amounts for my chameleons.

[Linnea]

Litchie is 1 year and 3 ½ months old

i feed every third day, the amount is like a jar lid or sometimes bigger

dog or cat food, applaws and gold are good brands that Litchie likes, mixed with veggies. the veggies are almost always ruccola ( aragola? ) and some nutricional and less nutricional salad sorts that are available in sweden. everything but iceberg lettuce and spinach oh, and calcium/vitamin dust. since our veggies are imported i add vitamins in the calcium powder.

the food costs me about 8 sek per feeding, thats 0.8 euro. if its applaws then its more like 1.5 euro per feeding.