I will ask this question, not that I know the answer. If you gut load immediately before feeding the cricket off. Then that material will not have been digested and absorbed into the crickets body and is actually undigested matter. So why not just feed that stuff to the monitor?????? Why the middleman?

It's very possible I've just 'picked up' on the term, 'gutloading', when it's basically just feeding the crickets a highly nutritious feed and lots of it and not necessarily, 'immediately before feeding the cricket off'.
But, as for your question "why not just feed that stuff to the monitor?", I don't think a baby monitor would be likely to eat the cricket's food, unless it was disguised as a tasty, hopping insect. You know? Boing....boing....boing......

BTW- it wouldn't be the first time, I've missed the point

Thanks!

Susan.

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