Gut Loading with Calcium and Vitamin Powders

[globug]

I know this may be weird but do you ever Gut Loading with Calcium and Vitamin Powders? I don't really mean gut load but just add. Sometimes after I have worms in the enclosures for a few days I'll throw them back into the main tub of worms to fatten up again and pick out new ones. So I often toss some powders back into the tubs too as they were in the camies dishes. Is it any sort of good idea or any idea at all to ever put some of those powders into the worms in hopes that they might eat that too to give the camies vitamin and calcium powders too? Odd question I know but just thought I'd throw that out there.

 

[nightanole]

Nah you are good. Lots of us feed the food powder as part of the gut load. I would advise to watch how much you give a colony though. Too much calcuim will kill certain feeders in days. Its why when you have a colony normaly you have a small box of feeders set aside that get "the good stuff" that will be fed off in days.

 

[sandrachameleon]

I know this may be weird but do you ever Gut Loading with Calcium and Vitamin Powders? I don't really mean gut load but just add. Sometimes after I have worms in the enclosures for a few days I'll throw them back into the main tub of worms to fatten up again and pick out new ones. So I often toss some powders back into the tubs too as they were in the camies dishes. Is it any sort of good idea or any idea at all to ever put some of those powders into the worms in hopes that they might eat that too to give the camies vitamin and calcium powders too? Odd question I know but just thought I'd throw that out there.

they're not going to eat it.
but in small amounts amongst the substrate it will do no harm to the worms