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@kinyonga Dusting supplements also get groomed off quickly and my gecko can get iffy about her food and wait a little bit before eating them. A feeder insect can't groom off gut contents so I believe using a proven gutloading diet and dusting together rather than choosing one is very beneficial.

The calcium and multi vitamin dust. Dusting supplements are known to increase nutrients higher than gutloading diets. I personally believe that both a gutloading diet with a proven ability to improve the calcium to phosphorus ratio in insects and dusting should be done. I'm not trying to say...

Ok very long comment I’m sorry. I want to study exotic animal nutrition in college. It wasn’t just the gutloading picture on the forum but also some threads that made me really really want to post scientific evidence on gutloading diets. I used to follow the gutloading guidelines from this forum...

All of the gutloading diets I have. Just missing T-Rex cricket diet dust which has the needed amount of calcium but I don’t know what they’ve done to the calcium plus cricket diet since it seems to be more of a “maintenance diet” for increasing vitamins before they’re gutloaded with their high...

Exactly the vitamins are stored into the body rather than the gut. The calcium of the diet is stored in the gut for when the reptile is being fed. If I remember the studies correctly lol.

https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8223&context=etd#page=58

The group rules says " 11. Do not post full articles or hotlinked images on this website without permission from the content owner." I'm wondering if that means I can't just post the study that I want?

If I remember from the studies I've read correctly, vitamins have nothing to do with the gut content and more to do with how the diet alters the tissues of the feeders.

Just need to figure out which member I need to ask before I post the study here.

I think Mazuri is well worth the price. In a gutloading diet, the top ingredients are more for palatability rather than for increasing nutrients. In the study that I want to post Mazuri increased calcium and vitamins better than Repashy Superload in medium sized crickets. A gutloading diet that...

I read this study and provided all of my insects UVB. Then I was reminded how light damages vitamins so I turned it off. I've been relying on the feeder's "maintenance diet" for increasing vitamin D from now on.

I don't even own a chameleon but I would like to join in and see if a gutloading study I have read would help. There is a study where Repashy Superload was tested against Mazuri Better Bug, Timberline, Mazuri Hi calcium Cricket Diet, and a control of crickets fed fresh produce and then dusted...