Watermelon??

[MontyAndMelissa]

Does anyone know if watermelon (rinds?) Are safe to gutload crickets with? Been feeding them apple. I have a watermelon I am going to cut up today and I don't want the rinds, and what is left of the watermelon on the rind to go to waste if I can gutload with it. Mainly I want to make sure its safe for charma. I know that you can't feed them citrus fruit, the acid messes up their little tummies.

 

[jannb]

I have never use the rinds for Gutload but they should be safe. I have fed a little watermelon to my chams before and they love it. Also, I use orange as part of my Gutload sometimes. My vet says it provides some vitamin c to the chams and that's a good thing.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I use them a handful of times each year. As hydration for crickets, roaches, and superworms. I just used/fed cantaloupe rinds last night to a few different roach species and the superworms.

 

[PatsyB]

I've used the rinds before for my super worms.

 

[fluxlizard]

I use rinds pretty often for all kinds of feeders (roaches, mealworms, crickets, soldier flies). Should be fine. Have no idea about nutritional content, and can make insects "wet" for a day or two after the rinds are eaten(meaning if you put 100 in a cup to coat with calcium and then count them out into cages, you may end up with a sticky mess of insects "peeing" on each other and turning calcium into goo or simply preventing calcium from coating- which is sort of par for the course for any fruit or high water content food).

 

[MontyAndMelissa]

Well I cut the water melon today. I will probably gutload tonight with it. They love the apple. And watermelon has more... well.. Water, so I hope it hydrates them