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I would always get banded crickets from Petsmart but they seem to be switching back to Acheta domesticus. I have no problem with the species but I prefer to use both Banded and Acheta so I’ll need to find banded crickets that I don't have to buy in bulk elsewhere. 😕

I typically only buy what I’ll feed in 1-2 feedings. I also like to buy pinheads and raise them to the correct size myself.

Truce, that’s just the nature of debates I guess. 🙂

@ERKleRose If I was forced to choose between the two that is. I definitely use dubia roaches alongside crickets, hornworms, and silkworms (if my gecko ever decides to stop turning her nose up at them 😒) as a staple. In the future I might try termites...maybe.

A well supplemented Cricket is no less healthier than a well supplemented roach. They both have bad calcium to phosphorus ratios before being gutloaded and/or supplemented and they both are deficient in vitamins A,D, and E. Roaches have a higher protein content but according to this study, it’s...

Proof that ash content effects gut loading? I have read many gut loading studies and ash content may be mentioned if there’s a full nutrient analysis of the different types of feeders but once they start talking about gut loading and the challenges of altering nutrients in crickets and...

Do you have proof that chameleons get no nutrition from mealworms? They’re an easy to access feeder that can be added for variety and do you have proof that they can’t hold gutload well? Chameleons probably don’t eat quite a few of the commercial feeder species we have for them in captivity.

Mealworms do have nutritional value though. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing wrong with them as long as other healthy feeders are provided.

I don’t own a chameleon, I’m just here to seek more knowledge on the nutrition of insectivores. If I did then I would have no problem feeding them mealworms. Every food seems to be out to cause a health problem when they’re not supplemented with something else or has the incorrect role in a diet.

Currently feed mealworms, superworms, dubia roaches, acheta crickets (petco), banded crickets (petsmart), Hornworms, and I’m still trying to get my gecko to eat silkworms 😒. Looking at websites that sell a lot of different types of roaches too.

I just now recognized that 😖. I would still use both, variety is better than trying to choose one “best”.

I like to try and use both Acheta and Gryllodes.

Found a study on the two of them https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336068043_Nutritional_Values_and_Functional_Properties_of_House_Cricket_Acheta_domesticus_and_Field_Cricket_Gryllus_bimaculatus

I’m getting this gutloading diet that increases both calcium and vitamins A,D and E so now I’m just using what keeps them alive and healthy before they’re gutloaded. I’m trying out Small World Rabbit Feed that I grind up in a coffee grinder or blender. I use produce along with a folded, wet...

It all seems like the typical Small and large animal feed additives to me. Here’s the ingredient of the feed that I’ve been using for my feeders for comparison.

Got this from chewy

Hmm yes it probably would, no info on whether it is medicated or not.

The chicken feed. The horse feed sounds good too if you ground it up.

Just make sure it doesn’t have diatomaceous earth in it.

I don’t see the issue with the feed. Especially if that’s what they were feeding the colony.