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What exactly do you need crix to gut load them?

What kind of "dust" do you dust them with?

What do you FEED crix to gutload them.

That'll teach me to proof read!

I use Reptile Gut Load cricket and insect food and Reptile Gut Load cricket drink with calcium. I put this at the bottom of my cricket cage. For dust I use Reptocal vitamin and mineral supplement. There are many different kinds just read the labels what's best for you. I also use a water dechlorinater that helps condition their skin and helps them to shed easier. This has worked to help keep my frogs healthy.

If you get the current issue of reptiles there is an article on gutloading in it but I am warning you the editors made some errors when they edited a table into text so some of the choices for good veggies to use as part of a gut loading diet are incorrect. They are supposed to run the correction in Sept (but We'll see).

Ed

I got the magazine couple of weeks ago, just to know wich veggies I should feed and wich shoulden't
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CokeOfMan

The obvious ones to avoid are iceberg lettuce, plants in the spinach and broccoli family. Some of the fruits have a poor phosphorus ratio but are good to include due to the caretenoids (colors). I'll try to look at the article again and post a corrected paragraph.

Ed

Good veggies to use in the diet are as follows, tha majority can be be loose leaf lettuce, romaine, sweet potatoes and/or yams, and orange slices, the minority can be tomatoe (for caretenoids and lycopene, strawberry (caretenoids), apple with the skin, squash such as yellow zucchini or other yellow squashes (beta carotene). These are to be used in addition to a good dry diet such as flake fish food, ground dry dog food, organic poultry mashes.
Use only in the most limited amounts spinach, beet greens (contain oxalates which bind calcium), cruciferous plants such as cabbage, kale, broccoli, mustard greens (as these can potentially interfere with the thyroid).

I was really not too happy with the editing of the article.

Hope this helps,

Ed

Np
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CokeOfMan