whats the best?
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jojackson
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you could also add a variety of fruit and some form of protein, ive heard of folk claiming boiled egg. spirulina is good too. avoid spinach, its blocks calcium absorbtion.
Its important to keep them well hydrated and clean./ventilated.
By feeders i assume you mean crickets. Roaches the same applys but you can give more protein, if one of my snakes refuses a rat, i throw it in the roach colony, it dissappears overnight leaving only a few bones and skull, with mice, nothing at all.
plenty of greens for roaches aswell.
Its important to keep them well hydrated and clean./ventilated.
By feeders i assume you mean crickets. Roaches the same applys but you can give more protein, if one of my snakes refuses a rat, i throw it in the roach colony, it dissappears overnight leaving only a few bones and skull, with mice, nothing at all.
plenty of greens for roaches aswell.
danni
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just crickets & locust.
Miss Lily
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I thought I read on here not to gut load feeders with broccoli, spinach or lettuce. I buy packets of Wild Rocket leaves from Morrisons (59p for a bag that lasts a good few days). I also use apples, grapes, cabbage and carrots. I keep locusts, crickets, mealworms and superworms and they all like rocket and apple best. Last summer I bought a bag of whole wheat grains from a health food shop and grew wheat grass - the locusts went mad for it!! When I buy a new tub of locusts they eat so much! Easy to see how than can damage crops when they swarm!!
jojackson
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Lettuce has no value at all other than moisture, Herbivourous/omnivorous herps can eat brocoli but it should be given very sparingly. ditto spinach.
asian veg are great, buk choy, choy sum etc, endives, kale, the list goes on.
No, not all wrong, carrot is ok, not much goodness in potato peel, excepting you feed it to a worm farm and feed the cham the earthworms. Half an apple, pear, orange even, rockmelon, mango ...variety is key. different foods contain diff levels of different vitamins and nutrients, so the aim is to cover as many as possible.
feeding healthily gutloaded prey makes for healthy reptile. Folk rely heavily (too heavily imho) on suppliments but they are only that, supplimenting.
That dosent mean dont use them, but create a healthy diet to begin with.
grass? hmm, if you do throw in some grass on occasion, make sure its fresh deep green stuff, never mowed clippings or grass tht may be contaiminated by pesticides or lawnmower fuel residues. No idea of the nutritional value though.
asian veg are great, buk choy, choy sum etc, endives, kale, the list goes on.
No, not all wrong, carrot is ok, not much goodness in potato peel, excepting you feed it to a worm farm and feed the cham the earthworms. Half an apple, pear, orange even, rockmelon, mango ...variety is key. different foods contain diff levels of different vitamins and nutrients, so the aim is to cover as many as possible.
feeding healthily gutloaded prey makes for healthy reptile. Folk rely heavily (too heavily imho) on suppliments but they are only that, supplimenting.
That dosent mean dont use them, but create a healthy diet to begin with.
grass? hmm, if you do throw in some grass on occasion, make sure its fresh deep green stuff, never mowed clippings or grass tht may be contaiminated by pesticides or lawnmower fuel residues. No idea of the nutritional value though.
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