Heres why, to gut load means to feed them. If you have to feed them just before you use them to feed your monitors, can only mean one thing, that you were not feeding them in the first place, or the supplier was not feeding them. Which is kinda dumb.

As cricket ranchers "normally" feed crickets food they grow the fastest on. Which means its generally the "best" food to feed crickets.

To gut load crickets food you precieve is better is kinda odd. How do you know what they are already feeding on is bad??

If your keeping crickets for any lenght of time without feeding them, Well thats is just WRONG, and you should feed the crickets for the sake of the dang hungry crickets.

Gut loading appears to be another UV Bulb type of subject. Its something not needed or beneficial is you already have decent husbandry practices.

If you don't have decent husbandry practices, you and your charges would be better served by GETTING BETTER practices then buying a commercial product and not understanding what is ACTUALLY needed.

In otherwords, you do not need to take medicine if your not sick. If the crickets are normal, that means they are healthy and they do not need or benefit from any form of gut loading, nor does the reptile that consumes them. Gut loading is only of benefit if the crickets were straving in the first place, don't let them starve.

So, feed healthy normally fed crickets and all is well. Simple enough.

For those that are spending money on products not needed, TAKE that extra money and buy more food or bigger cages, or a new house with some land and a helicopter. Or take a trip to actually see these wonderful reptiles in nature(while you still can).

Sorry if I offended any product suppliers, but there are many sides to these stories. Cheers

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