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Hello,
I just bought herpcare criclet dust for the crickets I am feeding my WTF, is this brand ok? If not i am hoping someone can suggest something better to me. SOrry id it sounds like a dumb question but I am new at this at want a hapy and healthy froggy friend.
thanks

I like Sandfire Super foods "Tree Frog Dust" By T-Rex, it has really kept my REs and Cubans looking pretty and the White's we have in at work has become a beautiful dark, lime green since we got him in. (He was a very muddy brown and stayed that way 24/7 until about a month after we had gotten it in)
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Heather
The Gang (1.1.0 agalychnis callidryas, 0.2.0 bufo spinulosus, 4.0.0 osteopilus septentrionalis)

ellasmommie@yahoo.com

I use the Herpcare dust too, it works great for me. In adition to dusting you should gut-load you crickets too (if you dont do it already)personally i would suggest Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet, its avalible at petsmart.
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0.1.0. Leo
1.0.0. Sneaky House Gecko
0.1.0. WTF (looking for a breeder male!)

Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet

What a ripoff that stuff is! All you need to feed your crickets are chopped up fruits and vegetables. Buying anything more would be a ridiculous waste of money. Besides, crickets cannot live off of a high calcium diet that most gut load feeds are.

When it comes to using supplements, you should not use any one brand. The nutrition of captive reptiles and amphibians is not of much of a science as what you may think. We really do not know the nutritional needs of every single species, and it is ridiculous to think that one type of supplement is good enough for every type of reptile and amphibian in the world. You also cannot expect manufacturers to have the perfect kind of supplement, each manufacturer is going to use its own types of ingredients and manufacturing process that will ultimately make each one different. I highly recommend buying multiple types of supplements and using them on a rotating basis. If you do your best to eat fruits and vegetables every single day like you're supposed to, but you only eight apples and carrots, that would hardly be the nutritional diversity you need. The same is for supplements.
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I completely agree about the gut-loading thing. I have a bowl in my fridge that is just got my crix. diced carrots, apple, pears and occationally I will dust what I put in the dish with a little plain old calcium powder. I also alternate the Sandfire Tree Frog dust with the regular calcium dust, then every so many feedings I use a multi-vitamin dust.
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Heather
The Gang (1.1.0 agalychnis callidryas, 0.2.0 bufo spinulosus, 4.0.0 osteopilus septentrionalis)

ellasmommie@yahoo.com

Oh... I forgot to mention that my crix live WEEKS longer since using fruits and veggies to gul-load rather than the store bought stuff.
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Heather
The Gang (1.1.0 agalychnis callidryas, 0.2.0 bufo spinulosus, 4.0.0 osteopilus septentrionalis)

ellasmommie@yahoo.com

Hmmm... i'll have to try the fresh fruit thing again, never really had much sucess with that so thats why i switched over to the store stuff. also because i live really close to a pet store and i buy my crickets every 4 days so i dont have to worry about them living very long, i just needed something that they will eat fast, and the store stuff seams make them eat more faster. what kinds of fruit do you use? i used apples before but the crix use it as more of a toilet, and i've read oatmeal works too or has anyone tryed bananas? the stuff i have now is orangeish smelling, could i use citrus fruits?
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0.1.0. Leo
1.0.0. Sneaky House Gecko
0.1.0. WTF (looking for a breeder male!)

I use apples, pears and carrots mostly. Keep in mind that Crickets aren't the cleanest in the world, they will poop and eat all at the same time. I also mix in a little cat food occationally. But you HAVE to offer fresh food DAILY or it will just really start to stink bad!!
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Heather
The Gang (1.1.0 agalychnis callidryas, 0.2.0 bufo spinulosus, 4.0.0 osteopilus septentrionalis)

ellasmommie@yahoo.com