[gecko]Insect Gutloads

[Julie Bergman]

There are good gutloads available - I had been using Susan Donoghue's 
Walkabout Farms Gutload until she stopped doing the foods. Then along 
came Allen Repashy's Insect Gutload - everything you need in one bag, 
comes in all kinds of convenient sizes. As a breeder I don't have time 
to make up a mix of stuff so this suits. I'm sure the Fluker's product 
is fine. I use the same thing for both mealworms and crickets.

Julie B.

ElizabethFreer@aol.com wrote:

> Julie ~
>
> Why do you say this about oatmeal and mealworms?
>
> What about Fluker's High-Calcium Cricket Feed, alfalfa hay-kob, and 
> dry oatmeal as a gutload for crickets?  Long ago I crossed off 
> Tetramin Fish Flakes when one of two leopoard geckos (the male) housed 
> together died from severe gout.  Though this may not have been the 
> cause of the gout, the Tetramin Fish Flakes are 48% protein and we all 
> know that more is not necessarily better.  The female, Cha-cha-cha, is 
> still doing well.
>
> Sometimes I add fresh carrots and collard greens to my cricket gutload.
>
> Elizabeth
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