How many feeders to dust??

[Psychobunny]

So, lets say it's that time of the month to use a vitamin supplement for dusting the feeders. You dust several cricks/roaches with your calcium with D3, or multi-vitamin. What if they only eat one?

Do you repeat the next day?

How many feeders, dusted with the D3 or vitamin is enough?

In winter, and with my guys being a year or older, sometimes they will only
eat one good size roach or crick.
So I don't know if I should feed them another the next day or what!!??

 

[ridgebax1]

I would be interested in that too! Maybe on vitamin day the feeders should be on the smallish side so they eat more bugs and take more of supplements.

 

[jastate09]

So, lets say it's that time of the month to use a vitamin supplement for dusting the feeders. You dust several cricks/roaches with your calcium with D3, or multi-vitamin. What if they only eat one?

Do you repeat the next day?

How many feeders, dusted with the D3 or vitamin is enough?

In winter, and with my guys being a year or older, sometimes they will only
eat one good size roach or crick.
So I don't know if I should feed them another the next day or what!!??

You might want to dust a little heavier than normal but I would not dust 2 days in a row.

 

[sandrachameleon]

One is probably fine if that happens to be how many bugs are eaten. That's sometimes all that mine get. But it also depends on how well you are gutloading, the type of prey you are offering, how often you dust with vitamins, what brand of supplement you are using, etc.

 

[Progrmor]

This is what I do and it works kind of good. I fill her cup with the powder, ALOT. So even when they are all dusted there are still a cover of powder in the bottom, that way.. when she shoots she gets a decent amount of powder on her tounge aswell.

 

[Psychobunny]

One is probably fine if that happens to be how many bugs are eaten. That's sometimes all that mine get. But it also depends on how well you are gutloading, the type of prey you are offering, how often you dust with vitamins, what brand of supplement you are using, etc.

My jacksons will only eat one nice fat dubia roach, and I dust it pretty well.

All my feeders eat way healthier then I do!!
I steam the hard veggies, like carrots and butternut squash, give them greens, apple, orange, cricket crack, bug burger, and whatever else I have on hand.
I have never made my own dry gut load, but now that I know where to get the ingredients, I will start making some up fresh.

In the winter, none of my guyz want much to eat, not even Smidget, who is usually a little chow-hound.