best store bought gutload for tokays?
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billewicz
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I'm sorry but I didn't know there was one. There was a fairly detailed post in one of these forums here not too long ago about gut loading.
I'm a big fan of Repashy's Super Gut Load, carrots and dandelion greens. I also use Repashy's Calcium/D3 plus ICB for dusting three weeks in a row and then alternate to ZooMed's Reptivite for one week.
Really you can have the best delivered to you in a couple of days and in the mean time the carrots and greens will work until then.
I happen to like buying these products online from: Pangea Reptile Supplies Home Page They are fast and reasonably priced. :idea:
Enjoy,
Michael's Tokay Hoard at: www.billewicz.com
I'm a big fan of Repashy's Super Gut Load, carrots and dandelion greens. I also use Repashy's Calcium/D3 plus ICB for dusting three weeks in a row and then alternate to ZooMed's Reptivite for one week.
Really you can have the best delivered to you in a couple of days and in the mean time the carrots and greens will work until then.
I happen to like buying these products online from: Pangea Reptile Supplies Home Page They are fast and reasonably priced. :idea:
Enjoy,
Michael's Tokay Hoard at: www.billewicz.com
cricketsnieceandrepsitter
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My brother uses Repashy's Super Gut Load, for the crickets and roaches but he says they don't seem to like it very much. Do you think maybe he is mixing it wrong?
billewicz
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Ummm, mixing it wrong? There is nothing to mix, just dump it into the bin with the insects.
Actually my Dubia roaches can smell the stuff when I open the bag and come running out from under the egg crating in their tanks. It's like crack to them!:yikes::yahoo:
As for crickets. Lay your paper towel tubes down and then stack your egg crate, etc., up in the tank or tub. Place any food up near the top. Especially the gut load powder. I place a flat piece of cardboard on top of the egg crate and then dump the powder on top of that.
It's not that they don't like it. It's just not where they expect it to be. If you put the powder, or most foods on the bottom, the crickets will ignore it and defecate on it.
I read a report that sited white potatoes as possibly leaching calcium out of feeder insects, so I remove this from them if the supplier used white spuds to hydrate the crickets in shipping. (I throw the spuds into the super worm bin.)
If you have too much veggie content in the tubs, the crickets will not eat as much gut load and the tub will have a very high moisture level from them defecating all the extra fluids which is deadly to holding crickets for any period of time.
If your egg crate is moist or soggy, back off of the veggies or hydration gel.
I also place spot lights above, or pointed at their bins. Not too hot, just enough to stimulate them to eat, chirp and be happy.:banana:
I hope that helps,
Michael
Actually my Dubia roaches can smell the stuff when I open the bag and come running out from under the egg crating in their tanks. It's like crack to them!:yikes::yahoo:
As for crickets. Lay your paper towel tubes down and then stack your egg crate, etc., up in the tank or tub. Place any food up near the top. Especially the gut load powder. I place a flat piece of cardboard on top of the egg crate and then dump the powder on top of that.
It's not that they don't like it. It's just not where they expect it to be. If you put the powder, or most foods on the bottom, the crickets will ignore it and defecate on it.
I read a report that sited white potatoes as possibly leaching calcium out of feeder insects, so I remove this from them if the supplier used white spuds to hydrate the crickets in shipping. (I throw the spuds into the super worm bin.)
If you have too much veggie content in the tubs, the crickets will not eat as much gut load and the tub will have a very high moisture level from them defecating all the extra fluids which is deadly to holding crickets for any period of time.
If your egg crate is moist or soggy, back off of the veggies or hydration gel.I also place spot lights above, or pointed at their bins. Not too hot, just enough to stimulate them to eat, chirp and be happy.:banana:
I hope that helps,
Michael
Riverside Reptiles
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I make my own gut load. There's multiple very simple recipes in the "feeder" forum here. You can make it in large batches so you're not having to make it every time your gutloading you bugs. I'd suggest using Maurice's recipe as he's put a lot of work and science into developing it. It's posted in a sticky. As for store bought gut load/cricket diets, they're usually loaded with all kinds of stuff that I can't even pronounce. Not really what I want being fed to my animals.