gutloading crickets?

[EveryGreen]

so i recently bought some bananas and strawberries for my crickets. and it wiped out my whole colony. so im guessing its the wrong thing to be feeding them? cause it was like a plague just came in and destroyed everything, and im mad cause those crickets are expensive. what should i be feeding them?

 

[kinyonga]

I use a wide assortment of greens and veggies such as dandelion greens, kale, collards, endive, escarole, carrots, squash, sweet potato, sweet red pepper, zucchini and a bit of fruit such as berries, pears, apples, melon.

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

I wonder if there was bug poison on the berries?

 

[EveryGreen]

I wonder if there was bug poison on the berries?

no that cant be it. they were frozen. all i did was defrost them. i fed some to my geckos but by that time i already had noticed they were dying a lot faster than usual so i didnt feed them to cooper. by the looks of it my geckos are fine. but its really weird how they would just pass so fast. (i say i had 10-25 fatalities a day which is abnormal)

 

[JoeDigiorgio]

I feed banana and berries all the time so it's not that you can't feed those fruits. There had to be another variable. What type of crickets were they?

 

[Matt Vanilla Gorilla]

Was the frozen berries organic? If not, did you know that one of the fruits we humans frequently eat that has the most poison used in growing and producing them is actually a strawberry?

 

[Kristen Wilkins]

Was the frozen berries organic? If not, did you know that one of the fruits we humans frequently eat that has the most poison used in growing and producing them is actually a strawberry?

Strawberrys !!. Also frozen could have made the colony to wet . I have lost a whole bin of crickets because it was to most they all died . That also happened once coming home on a hot day . My amazing crickets keeper friend put the crickets in a plastic bag like one would put fish in . I made one stop then went home to get them in their bin . The bag got condensation 1/2 the already died , by Am all died .

 

[EveryGreen]

Was the frozen berries organic? If not, did you know that one of the fruits we humans frequently eat that has the most poison used in growing and producing them is actually a strawberry?

soo. i may have forgotten about organic at the time cause i was in a rush.