Reddit mentions of Fluker's Calcium Reptile Supplement with added Vitamin D3 - 4oz.

So we are currently two raising two juvenile bearded dragons and I will give you the run down of what they get everyday.

5-8 Appropriately Sized Dubia Roaches
I would not suggest mealworms for a baby bearded dragon. The big issue with mealworms is that bearded dragons can have issues breaking them down. Crickets are another alright option but you can't beat Dubia Roaches. They are apparently 24% protein and unlike Crickets they don't smell, die all the time, or escape your bearded dragon. We have a colony we setup in a 20 gallon aquarium we purchased from https://www.dubideli.com/ but with just one baby you could just easily order a bunch of the size you need. For a baby you are probably looking at starting at the 1/4" sort group For roaches we generally feed them about what they normally eat but if they still look hungry we will keep feeding them roaches until they stop hunting them. Most of the time you can judge by your dragons behavoirs.

Pep-Cal Juvenile Bearded Dragon Food
This is served in a small food bowl. It is a nutritionally balanced commercial bearded dragon diet. You can soften it with either water or 100% juice. We have found that Apple Juice (we use Indian Summer) works best.

Shredded Salad
This is where the real work comes in. If you do not have a food processor I would suggest you get one right away. So every couple of days we make chopped salad in our food processor using vegtables and fruits from this list. I generally try to a good balance of healthy vegetables, if you like I can go into how to grow alfalfa sprouts at home (they are high in protein and calcium). I always make sure to add a little bit of fruit and a splash of apple juice to make it appealing. You will find what your dragons prefer. I know that for example anything that tastes like blackberries will go down well with our female so i always put a bit in the salad.

I just put a small amount of this salad in a food bowl every day and then put the rest in a tupperware container in the fridge. I generally make just enough to last 3 days.

Supplements
You must must be providing your bearded dragon with a Calcium/D3 supplement 3 times a week and a multivitamin once a week. I prefer to "dust" the roaches instead of putting the dust in any of the other foods because I can be guaranteed they will eat the roaches. You can get two jars of vitamin dust that will last you for almost forever. This is what I just pulled off my shelf and what we are currently using: [Flucker's Phosphorus Free Calcium/D3](http://amzn.com/B0002DHPF8} and Rep-Cal Herptivite Mutlivatime (http://amzn.com/B00076HT3S). I just have a vatamin schedule on the fridge.

Since the other person couldn't give you approx prices for beardies, I can do that!

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I'll repeat this at the beginning, but do not buy starter kits. It's tempting. Do not buy starter kits. They will have items that are dangerous to beardies.

Setup:

Terrarium - Very basic setup. I've seen this brand up to $190 locally, but of course it's cheaper online. ***Note: It's not suggested you get this size enclosure immediately, unless you're rescuing or purchasing a young adult or adult. Hatchlings can live happily in a 20gal glass tank for their first 9mo or so, but they grow quickly!

Substrate - Paper towels, newspaper, or ceramic or stone tile. I spent $8 on slate tile and broke it to fit my terrarium. All other options are dangerous to beardies in some way or another. No sand. No repticarpet. No gravel.

Light fixture - $37, but if you look around you can find something non-branded for much cheaper than this. Must be a bare bulb visible, no cover to diffuse light. I used to have a 4ft shop light fixture, but went down to an 18" fixture just for the cheaper price of the bulbs. Which comes to...

UVB bulb - $20, replaced every 6 months. Very important to replace regularly.

Heat lamp dome - $12

Ceramic heat emitter - $12.

Reptile calcium - $2-5

Food dish - $5 max?

Plus whatever decor you want. Most people go for hammocks, a hide, fake plants. Real plants aren't suggested and will either be destroyed or eaten, and many are poisonous. Beardies do not need a water dish (too much humidity is actually bad for them) and do not frequently drink from standing water, so owners usually bathe them weekly to give them opportunity to drink their fill.

Baby bearded dragons eat about 80% live food and 20% plants. By the time they're adults (about 18-24mo) they transition to 80% plants and 20% live food. How much you spend on food will vary depending on what you're buying for their staple, but I would buy a butternut squash for probably $2 or so, dice it up, and freeze it. My guy loved it. I'd supplement with other foods on the safe food list, a mixture of fruit and veggies.

Say about $5 per 2 weeks for live food for a baby and however much for veggies. Thankfully for the veggies, anything your beardie doesn't want to eat, you can, so I don't count it as much haha

While beardies DO have an expensive setup (like most reptiles), their actual maintinence costs are fairly low and their adorable derpiness is absolutely worth the initial cost! They can live up to 15 years or so - my boy, Warra, was 12 when I had to put him down due to an inoperable tumor in his mouth. It's been close to two years since I've had one, and I miss having beardie compansionship every day! I'm slowly succumbing to the urge to get a new baby...

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Edit: I wrote all of this, and forgot the price of the beardie...... Beardies can range anywhere from $60 to $500, depending on whether you're looking for a normal beardie, or a morph!