benthirty2
New Member
hello yall,
just need some pointers on the proprotions and weather or not to mix wet food together or serve in seperate little blobs for the crickets to eat. For wet I use collards and switch to mustards, crushed up kelp tablets on both wet and dry, gerber sweetpotatoe and yellow squash, and a/d catfood. For dry, I use baby rice cereal, dried milk, ground up bee pollen pellets, oats,. Now i have two seperate cages in which i keep the bulk of my crickets which i use just the dry with a mini water dispenser. The other cage, in which i keep ten to twenty crickets to munch on all the premium gutload , but like i said i keep the wet seperate and use trimmed down peanut butter lids to put the wet food in so that i dont use so much as to keep down the mold and to cut down on waste from the mold. I just throw it out after about 3 days. So I just need to know if i should mix the wet in certain proprotions all together and serve or just let the crickets eat what they eat for the gutload and then serve to my cham. I know that the greens should be about 40% of the mixture and the rest i dont have a clue. If you guys can help and the wet food needs to be mixed together, how much of the rest in teaspoons or tablespoons should i use of each. If necessary the same for the dry. Also to cut down on waste of the premium gut load for the next round of crickets to be given to my cham, should i leave out the water supply to encourage the crickets that will be fed in the next 24 to 48 hrs in order to get the maximum amount of premium gutload to the lizard, because the crickets seem to concetrate more on the water provided I think because theyre already full off of the dry mix that i feed to the bulk crickets. The bulk crickets eat the dry like its going out of style and when i take ten or twenty and drop into the premium gutload cage the crickets dont frenzy around the good food. And yes i properly dust and supplement the gutloaded crickets and not just the crickets. I put just a tiny dash of the supplement directly on the food along with a dash of some plain calcium and not the d3 stuff because its already in the dusting that i use by Mineral all. I hope you cant comprehend what im trying to describe to you guys. Your help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx,
Ben and Bob
email: [email protected]
just need some pointers on the proprotions and weather or not to mix wet food together or serve in seperate little blobs for the crickets to eat. For wet I use collards and switch to mustards, crushed up kelp tablets on both wet and dry, gerber sweetpotatoe and yellow squash, and a/d catfood. For dry, I use baby rice cereal, dried milk, ground up bee pollen pellets, oats,. Now i have two seperate cages in which i keep the bulk of my crickets which i use just the dry with a mini water dispenser. The other cage, in which i keep ten to twenty crickets to munch on all the premium gutload , but like i said i keep the wet seperate and use trimmed down peanut butter lids to put the wet food in so that i dont use so much as to keep down the mold and to cut down on waste from the mold. I just throw it out after about 3 days. So I just need to know if i should mix the wet in certain proprotions all together and serve or just let the crickets eat what they eat for the gutload and then serve to my cham. I know that the greens should be about 40% of the mixture and the rest i dont have a clue. If you guys can help and the wet food needs to be mixed together, how much of the rest in teaspoons or tablespoons should i use of each. If necessary the same for the dry. Also to cut down on waste of the premium gut load for the next round of crickets to be given to my cham, should i leave out the water supply to encourage the crickets that will be fed in the next 24 to 48 hrs in order to get the maximum amount of premium gutload to the lizard, because the crickets seem to concetrate more on the water provided I think because theyre already full off of the dry mix that i feed to the bulk crickets. The bulk crickets eat the dry like its going out of style and when i take ten or twenty and drop into the premium gutload cage the crickets dont frenzy around the good food. And yes i properly dust and supplement the gutloaded crickets and not just the crickets. I put just a tiny dash of the supplement directly on the food along with a dash of some plain calcium and not the d3 stuff because its already in the dusting that i use by Mineral all. I hope you cant comprehend what im trying to describe to you guys. Your help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx,
Ben and Bob
email: [email protected]
