Recent content by Gryllidae Per Kcal

I don’t know if you have already seen this study, but I thought you might find this table showing the nutrients of un-dusted crickets fed a diet alternating between Repashy Superload and a mix of sweet potatoes, carrots, and kale for 2-8 days useful.

Some gut loading studies released last year by the AZA Nutrition Advisory Group. ( Calcium to Phosphorus ratio of cricket nymphs fed Mazuri Better Bug powder, Mazuri Better Bug gel, or Mazuri High Calcium Gut Loading Diet powder)...

I had an email conversation with Mark Finke, a PhD nutritionist who has published some studies on the nutritional value of feeder insects, and got his permission to share my questions and his answers. Note that there’s a difference between gut loading and feeding feeders. Question: Do you think...

I’m not sure if I’ve shared this before but here’s a paper on altering the nutrient levels of feeder insects through a maintenance diet. I know Timberline uses this method with their own line of insects called Vita-Bugs. Instead of gut loading, feeder insects can be fed a maintenance diet that...

I like to research gut loading and the nutritional requirements of insects, I find the most studies of gut loading and nutritional analysis on crickets so I used the word Gryllidae which means a family of insects consisting of crickets, and then per kcal (kilo calorie) since that’s a unit of...

I made a survey on ZooMed’s Reptihabitat Leopard Gecko Kit. I want to see if I can try to convince them to make the kit in a way where more reptile keepers, including myself, are more comfortable with buying and/or recommend their kit to beginner reptile keepers...

True, I understand if it’s kids making this mistake, but parents and adults should know better than to treat an animated, magic Disney animal like it’s the real deal. I think the biggest impact that can be made is if we somehow convince all big chain stores to provide nothing but useful/good...

If you want an actual example of a movie harming reptiles then TMNT: Mutant Mayhem is a good one because they actually promoted a poorly made aquatic turtle kit for real life pet turtles in the UK.

The movie didn’t harm chameleons. The pet stores that sold the chameleons without giving the buyers a reality check and the lack of regulation did.

Thank you 😊.

I made this video to help as many reptile owners without a Solar Meter 6.5 choose the appropriate UVB lamp. What do you guys think?

By Frances Baines in the Reptile Lighting group on Facebook. “This is an open letter to the EU Commission, relating to the planned future total ban on all incandescent lamps including halogens, and all fluorescent lamps including compact lamps and tubes, also mercury vapour and metal halides. At...

Sorry for the tongue emojis, it probably thought that was what I was trying to type any time my text said : phosphorus.

I can’t post a picture of the abstract that I was sent for the study on Fluker’s High Calcium Dubia Roach Diet, so I pasted the text here. USING A HIGH-CALCIUM COMMERCIAL GUT-LOADING DIET TO IMPROVE THE MINERAL CONTENT OF CAPTIVE-BRED DUBIA ROACHES (BLAPTICA DUBIA) E. D. Barras, DVM'2, K. L...

Here are some gut loading studies on all of the gut loading diets you saw on the shelf at Petsmart. Mazuri Better Bug, Fluker’s High Calcium Mealworm Diet, and Fluker’s High Calciun Dubia Roach Diet. The High Calcium Cricket Diet isn’t as good as the other formulas because it actually doesn’t...