Gutloading Crickets
Cricket Food
Crickets should be gutloaded for a minimum of 24 hours before being fed to pets.
The healthier and better fed your crickets are, the more nutritious they become
for your pets.
Crickets need to eat a good dry mix as well as moisture/fresh vegetable content.
The gutload mix should NOT be used as substrate, but kept in a jar lid or other dish.
Remove any old vegetables every day or two.
Gutload Mix
Use a combination of the following to make a healthy gutload mixture:
Oats,
Grain Cereal,
Baby Rice Cereal,
Bran,
Flax Seeds,
Wheat Germ,
Alfalfa Flakes,
Spirulina,
Fish Flakes,
Dry Milk Powder.
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Moisture
Crickets will canabalize each other if not provided with enough moisture. Do NOT
add a dish of water. Crickets are likely to drown in an open water source. Instead use
vegetables/fruit, and/or a
Water Pillows
Place fresh vegetables on top of substrate every day or two and remove old vegetables.
Good vegetables/fruits to use include:
Carrots, Apples, Potato. (These make a fairly cheap (although not the best
nutritionally) moisture source, especially if you keep large amounts of crickets.)
Mustard, Collard, & Turnip Greens, Kale, Rapini, Watercress, Arugula, Endive,
Escarole.
Green Beans, Peas (Snap, Snow, etc.), Parsnip, Squash, Okra.
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