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Right now I have a limited supply of food to gut load, so I use wheats. Will this be OK.
I remeber a couple of years ago i once gutloaded my mealies with rice crispes. After a week my male gecko was walking strange and shaken, so I stop gutloading them rice crispes (or however you spell it).
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1.2.1 Leos
2 WTF
2.1 FBT
0.0.2 RES
Too many fish

Personly, I use a mixture of the following:

Baby rice cereal, wheat germ, nonfat powdered milk, and powdered oat bran. On top of this on a little piece of paper towels I put sliced baby carrots for moisture.

I just use a very basic guload of oatmeal and mixed flaked babyfood for my mealie bin. I keep a 1/8" layer of t-rex sandfire superfoods gutload in the bottom of my feeding dishes. This acts as food for uneaten mealies and a supplement for my leos. In fact it is the only supplement they get and it has worked great so far. I got this idea form other breeders that use the same method, but with a bird supp. called vionate.
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Bill DiFabio
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Use layer mash, that you get at a feed store. I got 10 pounds for $2.35 Just place it in the oven on 300 degrees for about 20 minutes, just to kill any insects that might have tagged along. If the mash is very large grained, I place it in the blender and get it into a fine powder. This stuff is identical in ingredient percentages as Fluker's Cricket Gutload. But that stuff is 4 bucks for 12 ounces. Layer mash is $2.35 for 10 pounds. Can't complain, cheaper than cereal, fish food, oatmeal, cornmeal.

Oatmeal
Wheat bran
Soy protein nutritional supplement powder (Trader Joe's, unsweetened and unflavored)
Ground lentils
Ground Flax Seed
"Very Green" drink mix from Trader Joe's (spirulina more)
Carrot slices
Red potato slices
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Sarah Stettler aka Starling
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Special K cereal and guinea pig pellets... with a little vitamin dust...

And soon to include fish flakes, when I get off my lazy ass and buy some.
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Blaine

0.0.1 HY/Patternless/Normal Leo (Echo)

the foods that were already in my house that i've included in my gutload consist of: oatmeal, wheat, organic cereal from trader joes (that i crushed), my leo's calcium powder, and carrots.

the foods that i purchased from the store for my gutload include: insect gutload, and trex sandfire cricket gutload.

works pretty well!

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0.1.0 Albino Leopard Gecko (Marlene)
0.0.2 Fire Bellied Toads (Norman & Forman)
0.2.0 African Dwarf Frogs (Hobo & Bobo)
1.0.0 Fighting Fish (Blue Balls)
0.0.2 Hermit Crabs (Kirby & Furby)
1.0.0 Black Lab / Pit Bull (Mikey)
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