You are What you Eat - Cricket Basics

What is Gut-Loading, When you Should Do it, and How!
To again, Keep Things Simple . . .

Gut-loading is the process by which you increase the nutrient load in your “feeder” insects.

This process should take place 24-48hrs before your pet Chameleon will be fed.

We keep our Crickets in clear plastic Totes with egg crate (cardboard - shapes change haha) layers inside.
Our Crickets are kept in an area with temperatures around 75F, and a humidity of 50%.
You don’t want to over-crowd your bugs!

“Bug Food” and Water are kept available inside the totes.  
We do this by keeping small plastic lids inside the Totes with Bug Food on one, and Water on another (either commercially bought water gel, or a small amount of water with a paper towel or small sponge on top to prevent drowning).

“Bug Food” can be bought commercially such as Bug Burger by Repashy (great for a 24-hr gut load), or you can easily make it yourself (especially when you keep crickets for longer periods of time on hand)- which will last you awhile. We do use carrots, sweet potato, kale, cabbage, apples among other fruits & vegetables as fresh ingredients for our feeder insects. Fresh food does need to be removed regularly so they don’t mold over and get yucky!

While we do use a combination of everything mentioned above to feed & “gut-load” our feeder insects, here is some of what we’ve used in our Bug Food mix: Alfalfa Hay, Bee Pollen, Wheat Germ, Oats, Multi-Vitamins, Superload

Want a breakdown of what we added? Need help keeping your Bugs alive? 
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