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I don't have specific info on this product but Dr. Repahsy is as well informed as they come. He has a unique combo of experience and education hard to come by.

If you look up a researcher named Finke you can find numerous studies on crickets and gutloading. Regarding the Ca:Ph ratio, only one commercial diet produced a desirable ratio so most commercial gutloads are crap.

Look at the powder blue ones to raise as feeders, they breed fairly rapidly and do good on fish flakes.

The biggest problem with BSFL was the cost. I've noticed some vendors with much lower costs on higher quantities recently. Alternatively, you can raise your own in much of the USa

Lots of studies done on properly gutloading crickets. I do remote the back legs, also makes them easier to catch or contain in cups.

These moths are pretty small, slightly smaller than waxmoths so would only really be suitable for chams that are quite small but they are easy to grow. They are escape artists so don't use them unless it's a well sealed and screened cage. Basically they will grow in any bird seed but do not seem...

I found mealworms are easy and cheap to grow on ground chicken mash and I use the wet bug burger for moisture only along with some veggies. It's pretty expensive stuff to grow mealworms in.

I raise all mine from egg to spinning on chow, too, no issues with it.

Give them time and heat. I don't know exactly when I started my roach bin but it was within the last few months and I only started with a dozen or so breeders and I am seeing quite a few baby roaches now.My bin sits on top of a piece of heat tape around mid-90s. For me, they actually eat way...

You need to measure both the basking spot and the ambient air temperature. I would get a digital thermometer with a probe like the acurite ones at Walmart work fine so you get two measurements with one device and are plenty accurate for general reptile keeping.

You don't want pantry moths, my house is overrun with them right now. I have about 20 pantry mouth bait stations out trying to get rid of them. They'll get into any food stored in your house since they can fly.

Some of my adults have been extremely long lived compared to store bought crickets, they don't die off like the ones from the pet stores if you've bred them yourself. Only the young ones do well with moisture, once they are older you want them to be dry except for the water source. So basically...

Crickets are easy to breed but you need to keep the eggs and young crickets warm in order to have good results. There isn't much to do, you need a container with a couple of inches of moist eco earth for the eggs, a dimmer (they are like 10$ at lowes.. they are kind of hard to find in the store...

It's pretty hot right now, maybe someone can use a cold pack, I would def. do the hold for pickup through August.

I started buying them from Colorful Cocoons. She breeds them all herself and sells food, too. The eggs are fine to buy, they will hatch out within a short time and they grow pretty fast.

I think rotating is a good idea. Studies done on commercial cricket diets have shown they often do not actually meet the stated min and max calcium contents. I do remember that the Trex food did test as accurate so that's a good one to use. Flukers was tested twice on different occasions and had...

Here's what I use. A soda bottle cut down to size, saran wrap with a couple of small holes, a rubber band to hold the wrap on, and eco earth. I put a bunch of female crickets in it with a couple of males. Soon eggs will be visible around the sides so than I take the crickets out and set the...

I have some salamanders I think might like them and I cannot bring myself to breed slugs. Are the adults hard to pull out of their shells? I had the idea I might pull them out of the shell and feed just the soft body.

I've thought of starting a snail colony but how would I know which wild caught snails are readily breedable? The ones I can find locally are generally quite small. There is one location where I found some large ones and wish I had collected them because I believe them to be one of the European...

Crickets are easy to breed but the reason people do not have success is because they do not keep the eggs warm. For this reason you will need a heat pad and themostat or rheostat. I use coco fiber and a 2 liter bottle. I cut the top off the bottle and use a rubber band and glad wrap for the...