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@Andee I've tried feeding hibiscus flowers and leaves to all of my bugs and they don't eat them. Which of yours do?
@broderp you could vacuum seal it to keep it longer. I make a giant blend and freeze it all. Haven't had issues and it's been a couple months. Not disagreeing though I can see your point.
For dry gutload I personally love bug buffet, has pretty much everything you could imagine in it and all of my feeders destroy it.
How much of the mixture should I put with the crickets? Can they regulate their own eating or will they over eat if I put too much in?@broderp my advice to you is buy as many different commercial dry gut loads as you can. Some like repashy can be turned into a gel by adding hot water. Some are fed as dry powder and they tend to have decent shelf lives that way. Make a good dry mix with those, maybe some nuts, bee pollen, spirulina powder etc.
By having a good variety all mixed together you have a good chance of covering all your bases and then tossing in a different veggie every week for moisture and extra nutrients. It's easy to buy kale this week, arugula next week and oranges the week after that and so on and so forth paying attention to good nutritional balance in the big picture.
@broderp my advice to you is buy as many different commercial dry gut loads as you can. Some like repashy can be turned into a gel by adding hot water. Some are fed as dry powder and they tend to have decent shelf lives that way. Make a good dry mix with those, maybe some nuts, bee pollen, spirulina powder etc.
By having a good variety all mixed together you have a good chance of covering all your bases and then tossing in a different veggie every week for moisture and extra nutrients. It's easy to buy kale this week, arugula next week and oranges the week after that and so on and so forth paying attention to good nutritional balance in the big picture.
How much of the mixture should I put with the crickets? Can they regulate their own eating or will they over eat if I put too much in?
Man I wish they'd always overeat. The more in the gut the better.