Ask Milk for gutload

[xiesehao]

hello all...
I have one question abaout "gutload"

if I give the milk to the crickets,,
is it safe for my leopard gecko later??

it's milk contains

- fat
- protein
- carbohydrate
- natrium / sodium
- vit A - D
- iron
- iodine / yodium
- calsium
- zinc
- fosfor

please answer my question guys,,please help me...

sorry if my languange not well

 

[Dog Shrink]

I've never heard of using milk for gutloading crickets and honestly the iodine part would scare me as it can build up in the organs of mammals so I know it likely isn't good for herps to ingest. Don't even know what yodium is. Hopefully some more experienced bug keepers will chime in.

 

[5HiddenLizards]

I've never heard of using milk for gutloading crickets and honestly the iodine part would scare me as it can build up in the organs of mammals so I know it likely isn't good for herps to ingest. Don't even know what yodium is. Hopefully some more experienced bug keepers will chime in.

Yodium =Sodium? Iodized Salt?

 

[Dog Shrink]

Npw you're going to make me look it up hiddenlizards Hold on...

Ok this is what I found: Yodium-Indonesian: Disturbances Caused by the Deficiency of Iron; Jakarta, Indonesia.

It also said to reference to iodium... ok based on that ^^^ I put it into a google translator from indonesian to english and it says it's iodine.

 

[xiesehao]

@ hidden yes yodium from salt bro...

so this is dangerous?

yesterday I give milk for cricket and the cricket I give for my loepard gecko....

I am scare now

 

[5HiddenLizards]

Disregard! My internet is Slow! Didn't see the other Post!

hello all...
I have one question abaout "gutload"

if I give the milk to the crickets,,
is it safe for my leopard gecko later??

it's milk contains

- fat
- protein
- carbohydrate
- natrium / sodium
- vit A - D
- iron
- iodine / yodium
- calsium
- zinc
- fosfor

please answer my question guys,,please help me...

sorry if my languange not well

Can I ask what kind of milk it is? Soy? Regular? Almond?

 

[5HiddenLizards]

"Although providing a “high calcium” gut load 24hours prior to feeding your pet is recommended you do not want to provide this as a daily maintenance diet. This goes for your feeder’s water supply (gels/cubes) as well. The reason for this is that calcium causes issues with crickets and other insect feeders that molt which can cause death. There have been reports of people who switched to a “high calcium” cricket food and started seeing more deaths in their feeder colonies. The best way to get calcium and other vitamins/minerals into your reptiles and amphibians is to simply dust the feeder insects with an appropriate supplement prior to feeding"

http://www.prairieexotics.ca/product-info.php


If you are using it like a calcium supplement, then it should be fine...?

 

[xiesehao]

@ hidden like poriddge milk

for baby age 6 month until 1 year
and I dusting one time for 2 day....with calsium and vitamin [exoterra]

thx 4 info...

 

[5HiddenLizards]

@ hidden like poriddge milk

for baby age 6 month until 1 year
and I dusting one time for 2 day....with calsium and vitamin [exoterra]

thx 4 info...

Oh ok, I see. I use some of that every once in a while, just dry though, & mix it with vitamins & such.

 

[xiesehao]

so milk I use not recommended ya?
so I must stop or continue ?

 

[5HiddenLizards]

so milk I use not recommended ya?
so I must stop or continue ?

If you are already dusting (which I assume is calcium), you probably shouldn't need to use the baby milk.

My feeder bug do eat the baby cereal, like the oatmeal baby cereal, but as for calcium, I usually just use the powdered reptile calcium.

 

[xiesehao]

oo i see thx 4 the info

 

[M_surinamensis]

The only (naturally occurring) things that can truly digest dairy are mammals and some strains of yeast. Nothing else produces lactase.

Consequentially, nothing except mammals and some strains of yeast should ever be fed dairy. Best case scenario, they just pass it. Worst case, undigested sugars play merry hell with their digestive tract, decomposing and rotting in the gut.

 

[xiesehao]

I ask him by email and he replay my question
ron tremper say " it's okay tuh give milk for gutlod "

 

[Joao]

Milk? I wouldn't trust it. Not worth risking it.

 

[T-ReXx]

The only (naturally occurring) things that can truly digest dairy are mammals and some strains of yeast. Nothing else produces lactase.

Consequentially, nothing except mammals and some strains of yeast should ever be fed dairy. Best case scenario, they just pass it. Worst case, undigested sugars play merry hell with their digestive tract, decomposing and rotting in the gut.

+1. Giving milk to insects or reptiles is not a good idea. They are not designed to digest it.