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Anyone tried these on beardeds? Good, bad, indifferent? I see them advertised, and they ARE cheaper than the Rep-Cal...but cheaper is not always better so.....opinions??? AM thinking of more a supplement...I feed all the other bearded fresh foods and insects...

Check out these links.

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I'm sure you will make the right decision!
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Rob

OK, saw that info....I am just wondering if the FOOD is any good at all or not.. I dont buy my reptiles from businesses anyway, only private breeders, so I don't have to worry about how they are treated nearly as much....I am wondering if their food is just some cheap fish pellets?

I wouldn't support a company like Fluker whether their food is good or not. I wouldn't be able to trust what they put on the label for nutrients. Plus repcal seem to be preferred more most dragons.

contributing to a company that does this simply because you have no direct connection in how YOUR reptiles are teated? If that's not what you're saying then please clarify.

Here's another link to check out. I honestly did not even read your whole inquiry about Flukers because I thought the info provided on those two links would basically move someone to not give a crap about their products. Anyway, check out this link and maybe it will help a little. PLease keep in mind some individual actions are a representation of how all aspecs of a business are run. Basically, if they screw you in one area chances are they are gonna screw with something else.

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Rob

No, what I am saying is.... what does anyone know about the PRODUCT? Didn't say I was supporting them in anyway, but wondered about the product itself...you know...a knowledge thing, like I like to KNOW things...I am sure that I am not the only person who wants to KNOW

Guess I didn't see how it made any SENSE to want to know about a product you were NEVER going to use. Please FORGIVE me for being so IGNORANT.

I hope your get the info you are looking for.
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Rob

Well, having been in the animal industry for many years, I always find it is very useful to find out about as many products as possible...even the bad ones........ People will always eventually come along and ask "what do you know about...", or "I feed such and such and am having trouble with..." or..." my critter got sick and we couldn't figure out why..." I hope you understand my view on this, I am not out to start a flame war or anything stupid like that....I just wanted to KNOW if anyone else had opinions about the Product....I see further down in the forum others do deal with reptiledirect and buy items there....and of course they will see Fluker Dragon food in the product line there.....

The first thing that came to mind with your post is that you were disregarding the negative facts and were maybe going to use the product regardless of the horrible things that have happened. That really bothered me and I had no idea if you realized buying a product would indirectly support other areas of their business. Or if you even gave a *&$#! Thanks for understanding.
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Rob

It looks like the local petsmart is dumping the fluckers food line as they have the bearded dragon food marked down to a couple of bucks a jar in a bin near the front with other discontinued stuff. Did fluckers make this stuff or just relabel it? Is it any good?
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I can tell you first hand, we bought a dragon, at the time we did not know that it orignated from a Fluker's breeding facility in Central America, it had a small spot on its foot and then belly that turned out to be a fungal infection, then we found it also had it internally..... it was doomed from before we had it. After it died a necropsy showed that it was loaded with Aspergilus mold fungus.... the same mold fungus that has been traced to dry cricket food with a corn base that develops when it gets damp. We had many other dragons, none had a problem or this fungus, the only difference was this one arrived to us with the fungus on and in him, from an area that is noted for dampness. By the Flukers own statement they were fed their crickets that were fed their products.

Ours was not the only one that had the same problems or large amounts of Flukers hatched and rasied animals dying. Or reptiles dying in mass after being fed their crickets or their gutload used. Where does the problem originate, I am not sure, but I would think it is either the enviroment they are rasied in, the crickets they are fed or the gutload that goes into their crickets.... I will leave you to decide if it could be any or all of these.

You will probably be hardpressed to find someone who has used their food here so opinions on the product itself will be hard to get.........most of us choose not to support a company who has done the things they have. So on that note, I'll say that I read reports that their corn based cricket feed caused some problems that were reported as well......sick animals, problems with gutload, maybe it doesn't stop there.
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Tracey
Tracey's Beardies
www.beardiecrazy.com

All i can tell you is, I used to use it and my beardie loved it. He would eat them right up. I dont know much about if it is good to use, or any downsides to it as a product, but i read that the RepCal brand was better, so I switched him over to that. Thats all i can offer you though =)
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~Melissa~
1.2 Leopard geckos
1.0 Bearded dragon
1.0 Hog Island Boa
0.0.1 crested gecko
1.0 Ferret
0.1 Chinchilla
1.0 Chinese Praying Mantis