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.

With new owners of a single baby monitor, they are buying crickets, which may or may not be well fed, from petstores.
Some are pre-packaged for who knows how long, in boxes of 25 or so.

If they buy 50 crickets or more, to last them a few days or a week, should they not be feeding/gutloading them, so's the monitor gets the most out of them, just to be on the safe side?

I'd rather feed a big fat overly 'gutloaded' cricket to my baby monitor, than a bunch of chitin with little nutritional value.

Their other option would be to buy in bulk, only to have most of them die before the baby monitor has a chance to eat the 500 or so.

Susan.

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