HolyToledo
New Member
I would greatly appreciate some advice about how I have been keeping our mealworms and crickets.
I have been having problems with my crickets stinking and dying off until I started putting this Mazuri breeder rat food powder in with the crickets. It looks and smells just like the Flukers cricket food. But, my intention was not as a gutload, more for bedding, to keep the bin drier and less stinky. I put fruit and veggies in for the gutload and there is no noticable amount of the powder missing when I clean the cricket bin. It worked so well that I started using it in the mealworm bin also. That way, I can put alot wetter fruits and veggies in for a few days without everrything getting icky.
Now that Mister Twister is ill, I mentioned that this is what I do and have gotten some questions back that have me concerned about whether this might not have been such a good idea. Can anybody tell me if this stuff is part of the problem?
Mazuri® Rodent 6F
Description
A diet designed for feeding rats and mice which are maintained in breeding colonies and intended for use as food for other species (such as reptiles).
Features
Contains yucca shidigera - shown to reduce aerosol ammonia in animal facilities.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude protein not less than ....................... 16.0%
Crude fat not less than .............................. 6.0%
Crude fiber(max) ....................................... 6.0%
Moisture(max) ........................................ 12.0%
Ash (max) .............................................. 8.0%
Ingredients
Ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, porcine animal fat preserved with BHA, cane molasses, wheat middlings, dehydrated alfalfa meal, ground wheat, ground soybean hulls, calcium carbonate, fish meal, salt, brewers dried yeast, dicalcium phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, dried beet pulp, wheat germ, corn gluten meal, soybean oil, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite (vitamin K), pyridoxine hydrochloride, DL-methionine, choline chloride, dried yucca shidigera extract, cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), thiamin mononitrate, folic acid, biotin, dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, vitamin A acetate, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate.
1% Soybean hulls
Please help me out! Should I stop using this?
I have been having problems with my crickets stinking and dying off until I started putting this Mazuri breeder rat food powder in with the crickets. It looks and smells just like the Flukers cricket food. But, my intention was not as a gutload, more for bedding, to keep the bin drier and less stinky. I put fruit and veggies in for the gutload and there is no noticable amount of the powder missing when I clean the cricket bin. It worked so well that I started using it in the mealworm bin also. That way, I can put alot wetter fruits and veggies in for a few days without everrything getting icky.
Now that Mister Twister is ill, I mentioned that this is what I do and have gotten some questions back that have me concerned about whether this might not have been such a good idea. Can anybody tell me if this stuff is part of the problem?
Mazuri® Rodent 6F
Description
A diet designed for feeding rats and mice which are maintained in breeding colonies and intended for use as food for other species (such as reptiles).
Features
Contains yucca shidigera - shown to reduce aerosol ammonia in animal facilities.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude protein not less than ....................... 16.0%
Crude fat not less than .............................. 6.0%
Crude fiber(max) ....................................... 6.0%
Moisture(max) ........................................ 12.0%
Ash (max) .............................................. 8.0%
Ingredients
Ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, porcine animal fat preserved with BHA, cane molasses, wheat middlings, dehydrated alfalfa meal, ground wheat, ground soybean hulls, calcium carbonate, fish meal, salt, brewers dried yeast, dicalcium phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, dried beet pulp, wheat germ, corn gluten meal, soybean oil, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite (vitamin K), pyridoxine hydrochloride, DL-methionine, choline chloride, dried yucca shidigera extract, cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), thiamin mononitrate, folic acid, biotin, dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, vitamin A acetate, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate.
1% Soybean hulls
Please help me out! Should I stop using this?