How do you gutload?

[Throughthedark]

I was just wondering what everyone's prefer method of gutloading is.

Also, how many crickets/other do you normally keep per chameleon?

 

[kinyonga]

For crickets, roaches, locusts, superworms you can feed/gutload them with a wide assortment of greens such as collards, escarole, endive, dandelion greens, kale, etc and veggies such as carrots, sweet red pepper, squash, zucchini, sweet potato, etc.

Regarding how many insects should be kept...What species of chameleon do you have?

 

[Meg4433]

Gutloading

I use a flukes cricket diet should I use the greens too?

 

[Andee]

I don't gutload, I feed a good diet all year round. I feel an insect raised on a good diet all year round is just as good as a gutloaded insect. I feed the fruit and greens all year as my wet diet and I have a dry diet that I make myself that contains super foods and only plant matter, it also contains a small amount of calcium and multivitamins.

 

[ricksli]

I've been using Cricket Crack and Repashy Hydro-Load.

 

[Blang]

I use repashy bug burger to gut load!

 

[Moxie]

I feed mine with fresh veggies all the time. Stupid question, to gut load do you set aside a group of bugs a couple days ahead in a separate container and feed them up nicely? Death row for feeders? If so, what do you feed the others in the meantime?

 

[SocialNumb]

Hmm, I was under the assumption that their daily diet (in my case a whole lot of good stuff) was gutloading them. My bugs eat very well.

 

[Moxie]

SocialNumb. Me too.

 

[Blang]

I feed mine with fresh veggies all the time. Stupid question, to gut load do you set aside a group of bugs a couple days ahead in a separate container and feed them up nicely? Death row for feeders? If so, what do you feed the others in the meantime?

I order 3 to 4 k of crickets every 2 1/2 weeks & they all get bugburger from the time I receive them until D-day! Fwiw!

 

[junglefries]

I use the same supplier of crickets for the last 30 years. Working for them in the past, has nothing to do with it. They just have a high success rate. I buy the 1/8-1/4" crickets and feed them Bug Burger, Cricket Crack, and other dry foods. For veggies, I use Organic Spring Salad Mix with a mixture of the other standard veggies rotated and what's fresh at the organic farm next door. They are fed this way all the time until needed.