Do you gutload your beardie's crickets?

[randomracoon222]

We do. ;D

There is a certain food that you put in your cricket cage that they eat. It is cube shaped, It's green, juicy, and smells somewhat like a melon. You can feed it to all prey insects; including mealworms; To give them nutrients that they pass on to the bearded dragon. I also like to put calcium powder on some of the gutloaded ones, It makes them all white. It catches spike's eye more then regular crickets, and he loves them. Anyway, Do you gutload them or just add powder?

 

[dudleythedragon]

Gut load mine with some brown food mix thingy that me vet reccommened
Also use that lovely nutriet white powder

 

[beardielover]

gosh, i don't raise my own crickets. i buy them from a local store. and i sprinkle them with calcium every couple of days.

how hard is it to raise your own crickets? where do you keep them? do they have an odor? are they noisy? so, many questions, but if it is easy, i'm game....even though gertrude rebels crickets every now and then.

 

[randomracoon222]

so many questions to be answered... xD

It's not hard, every week I replace their food.

I keep them in a insect tank, They take shelter in a piece of egg carton.

They don't smell, But they DO poop.

Yes, The bigger ones are noisy. The current ones we have are the smaller ones, so they don't chirp often.


It just sucks, because they escape a lot. And my sister has an insectophobia, so she screams when she sees one. "OH MY FUCKING GOD IT'S A CRICKET, ADRIA PICK IT UP RIGHT NOW! AAADRIIIAAAAAAA!!!"

 

[beardielover]

hmm...i think the noise would get to me. maybe they could stay in the garage?

so, silly question, do you have to clean up their poo?

 

[randomracoon222]

Eh, we're too lazy to clean it up. xDD
Crickets eat snail slime and throw up, they can probally eat their own poop. But we clean out the cage every 5 weeks to a month. (depends on whether we get new crickets or not)

 

[renich]

RandomRacoon, great post and advice!

 

[randomracoon222]

Heh, Thanks. ^^

I might add a bit of comedy to advice I post, Because like my mom says...

"Dork status!"

:3

 

[renich]

Gotta have laughter in life....if not, what else is there?