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COULD have to do with the "no supplements". Some animals will eat sand to get minerals into their system.

That may be so, but there are more things than just black/white or hatched/non-hatched. Eggs in peat mulch grew to more than 1.5 times the size than the others, a mixture of materials had slightly earlier hachings, etc. Things like that.

Lets just say that I had a lot of opportunities to perfect my recipes for drosophila cultures...

Well these were big fat fertile eggs, she was NOT happy the last days before laying. Poor thing. I used some different materials as an experiment, didnt think it would all hatch... And I think 98 or something like that hatched. Raising them was an adventure, never to be made again...

No way she "beat" mine with one egg! I need photo documentation! :D I actually did the mistake of hatching them all. I had no plan for a near 100% hatch success.

I had a calyptratus who layed 103 eggs once.

Pineapple contains enzymes that break down proteins, it can be used to make meat more tender. Maybe your brain is in deep trouble, how much did you eat?

Well your pictures are quite nice eighter way, is it the canon 60mm lens? I like the salamander, do you know what species it is? The procedure is nothing i can condone, all forms of mutilation is illegal here I believe, thats something at least I guess.

"Venomoid"? Is that the procedure where you remove the venomous glands? Is that procedure still legal?

Yup, when it come to roaches, i could even stop using cat food earlier tghan that, it's mainly in the beginning where I want the bugs to grow fast that I would find a need for high-prodein diet anyway.

This was discussed in another thread. The chameleon cant get gout from this, because the protein-rich cat food is not there when the chameleon eat the insect. If i were to eat you whole today, there wouldnt be any breast milk in your system (I hope?), right?

Fluoride? Who talked about that? I know I didn't, so now im confused. EDIT: Aha, "in the water"... Now I get it... Well We get it here too then I guess.

Sure they can go bad. If it never did before, you have a good routine. It seems like if the larvae get a good grip and get plentifull, the culture selddom molds or go bad in other ways, almost as if they prevented it. It wouldnt be crazy if they did. I know people have used a tiny drop of...

Is it possible you guys have a totally different bacterial flora in America? All these infections ore totally alien to me, I have never seen so much problems. In 15 years I have never had any reptile with these types of infections and rarely seen it at all in general. I hate to think I have...

Cat food COULD be a part of the crickets everyday staple food, but that is not the same as gutload. As gutload, catfood is bad.

They have been found in slight sub-freezing temps in nature. I know a guy who found his calyptratus with ice popsicles hanging from it (there was a freak weather event for the area and season), he was sure it was dead but had later moved and was very much alive. I try to take them in at night...

Yes. Its just fine, hunting for flies seems to be stimulating for them as well.

Is the forearm shown in the picture swollen too, or is it just the picture?

Large problems with parasitic protozoa like the one mentioned above tends to spread the most in large groups of animals, like chicken farms. Im wondering if the cricket farms aren't more prone to contract these problems than the odd wild fly... Scary thought.

I would guess there would be oocysts in the feces in 3-7 days, but I still think it is amazingly random to pay for a feces test for eating flies. Check for cancer at the same time, there is a small risk of that too. Make sure to get the full body scan... I doo get upset with this type of...