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This seems to be a regular problem with silkworms. I hope more silkworm suppliers join the fray soon. But i also know silkworms are a lot of work from egg to moth. I usually raise in small amounts, sticking only to a few thousand every batch

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good escargot are like whelks or I guess a bit like meatier clams, slightly different taste but not too much different. No slime cause once cooked it's gone, and then most people use a garlic and herb butter sauce Chameleons, skinks, and a lot of other species of lizards love young snails.

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Usually dubia roaches do best with no large variances from what ive seen. So no drops or increases are necessary, however changes within safe ranges wont kill them. More complex species do better with dormancy periods or humidity spikes etc. But most feeders species are easy keepers

But i also keep a far larger species of reptile than most chams and have sold to monitor keepers

I end up buying bulk shoppung containers of various types depending on the insect along with heatpacks for winter shipping

Heck yeah, hissers are great food for almost all chams as nymphs and then adult hissers tend to be fed to giant species

Thank you so much Kinyonga, finding papers has been like wading through mud. I want to be more informed as always, and I just know nutrition is the such an important root to health for everything.

I used to do it in the beginning too. But then I realized sometimes they are so different, things we do just don't make sense for the animals we feed. Etc. We rely a lot on mammal nutrition information but it doesn't make a lot of sense to do that. The reptiles and insects have a simpler gut...

Interesting. I wish we had more data on their nutrtitional needs and the way they digest. We barely have started looking into natural diet for dogs. So i can only imagine how long it will take for reptiles and insects.

Does low bioavailable urinary oxalates still have the issue of binding dietary calcium? I know it doesnt affect kidney stones as much but do we still have to worry about calcium as a nutrients then?

I mean the list is so much longer than what i provides but its insane. And it gets to a point where the diet rotation would just be so limited.

Broccoli 2 mgs per cup Brussels sprouts 9 mgs per 3 oz Watercress less than 3mg per 100g Mustard greens (cant find consistent measurment but is usually under 10 mg) Turnip greens (cant find consistent measurements but seems to be under 15 mg) Bokchoy 2mg per cup Common kale 17 mg in 3 oz...

I guess my question is when do things become... dangerous? Like... calcium is dangerous for everything at too high of levels. But oxalates seem more dangerous? When does inert become more important than gutload? I really feel we dont know enough about the digestive systems of insects and...

Insects can take a relatively high calcium peecentage long term as well as long as they are provided with other food sources and lots of inert foods as well i suppose. Kind of like... i have always raise my insects of a ratio to 3:1 calcium to phos. But they grew well. Low animak protein, high...

This is just part of some of the research ive been doing (there isnt a lot of it so far that ive found, looking for more scientific papers only found like 4) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44211898 Im not necessarily thinking of it as a forceful gutload but as a gutload to use over their lived...

Apparently insects naturally avoid high oxalate foods. Its a natural defensive mechanism that inhibits their growth when high enough. So if we give them a choice if the food is high enough to affect them they should naturally choose something low oxalate. However when does something become high...

Calcium ratio sits at about 3:1 Oxalates are relatively low at 100 mg per 2oz and the high percentage of calcium helps balance out the binding of oxalates into kidney stones.

Repashy supps is the low D ones just two teaspoons in a batch that was three lbs. And spinach just a little over an 1/8 of a cup. Think it physically weighed to be like .2 oz. Broccoli is a little less.