Crickets all dead after gut loading...

[katie_]

I decided to take about 30 crickets and gut load them with the rapashy crested gecko diet. I left them in their container for anout 20 minutes, and afterwards, they were all dead.
They were in a large enough container, with cardboard to climb on, and a mesh top.
The rest of the crickets that were not gut loaded are fine...

Is this a strange coincidence? Has anyone had any similar experiences?

 

[stager]

I'm not familiar with that product, is it a suppliment made for the gecko to ingest and not the crickets. Because if you dust crickets with supplements the die in a day or so.

 

[katie_]

I'm not familiar with that product, is it a suppliment made for the gecko to ingest and not the crickets. Because if you dust crickets with supplements the die in a day or so.

Its not the calcium and vit supplement. This is the crested gecko diet. The crickets went right at it.

 

[RampantReptiles]

Lol Im thinking you shouldnt feed CGD to crickets ever again...
That is odd tho... what would be in there that would kill them like that?

Overcrowding with crickets takes way more than 20 minutes to kill them...
If the crickets were exposed to extreme cold for an extended duration that would kill them...
If they dont get enough protein in their diet then crickets will die from that, but also takes a lot longer than 20 minutes.

Anyways just thinking out loud... No clue what happened to your crickets!:main_huh:

 

[BrightReptiles]

How was the humidity. When I was in florida, I'd bring home a few sealed plastic bags from the reptile store and by the time I drove 15 minutes home, they would all be dead with moisture all over the inside of the bag.

 

[animeavatar]

I dust the cricket food with supplements that are for my gecko sometimes.

 

[stager]

I dust the cricket food with supplements that are for my gecko sometimes.

Yea just don't do it ahead of feed time. I found out the hard way getting crickets dusted at the pet store greatly shortens there life.:main_rolleyes:I had npo clue till some one here told me.

 

[katie_]

How was the humidity. When I was in florida, I'd bring home a few sealed plastic bags from the reptile store and by the time I drove 15 minutes home, they would all be dead with moisture all over the inside of the bag.

That must be it! The food was pretty moist, there was condensation on the critter keeper.

 

[BrightReptiles]

That is almost definitely the problem

If it was humid enough to form condensation in the critter keeper (which are top vented and therefor don't hold humidity as well as a tub or such) than it was definitely WAY too humid and they drowned in the humidity.

 

[katie_]

Thats a relief!

 

[rchase54]

I don't think it was the humidity, crickets die fast if you dust them with stuff that's meant to give JUST BEFORE you give them to your gecko...