How to gut load mealies and supers?

[tlbowling]

OK...This is what I've been doing...(it's OK if U want to laugh at me:main_laugh
Once a week in the morning, I use feeding tongs (tweezers/ forceps) and fish out all the supers, and put them into a tupperware bowl with some thawed out veggies, let them eat while Im at work and then when I get home I feed some to my lizards, and put the rest back into a container.
Is there an easier way, am I feeding them often enough (once a week) how long does the food last in their gut?
Im just thinking there's gotta be an easier way. And I just got a whole order of 1000 mealies, dont think I'll be tweezing each one of them out! :main_laugh: So how do I go about gut loading them? How often? and How long to let them eat?

 

[wakeskate420]

I just keep my supers on oats and throw in sliced veggies an replace them when they start to turn moldy


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[roger]

I just keep my supers on oats and throw in sliced veggies an replace them when they start to turn moldy


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or raw potatoes with grounded up dry dog food and ground up unsweetened fibre cereal

 

[fuzzylogix]

same here, i just keep fresh carrots, potatoes, and romaine cores in my worm and roach bins.

 

[M_surinamensis]

Once a week in the morning, I use feeding tongs (tweezers/ forceps) and fish out all the supers, and put them into a tupperware bowl with some thawed out veggies, let them eat

That's not really gut loading, that is just feeding.

Gut loading is when you specifically feed your feeders something you want your predatory animal to eat. It is supplementation, like dusting but internal.

raw potatoes

Be careful with potatoes. As they decompose and/or dessicate they release heavier than air gases which can asphyxiate feeder insects. Make sure any potatoes which are fed to them are rotated out on a regular basis and never left in the feeder tubs past a couple days (sometimes less, depending on the ambient conditions, twenty four hours is safer).

It won't do anything except kill off your insects- but you paid for or bred 'em, there's no sense having to toss them over something simple like appropriate potato use.

 

[T-ReXx]

I store mealworms in gutload (Pro Gecko's) and remove them from the fridge about 36 hours before feeding, toss in a few carrots for H20 source and then feed off after they've been active for about 24 hours.

For super worms I just keep them in the gut load 24/7, carrots for H20.

For roaches I feed gut load and various fruits and veggies, providing water crystals as an H20 source.

 

[Grip Fast]

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keep all mealies in wheat bran and add about 1/2 cup of UNMEDICATED!!! chick starter feed i get that at any feed store and cut up apples, carrots, deadly potatos, or any veggie really. add new chick feed once a month. all my mealies stay nice and fat.

 

[thegeckoguy23]

I use oat meal or I use wheat bran or wheat germ what ever I can get, I use cheaped up carrots and what not for moister. I'm gonna be changing to hen crumble with a bit of pro gecko gut load and anything i can get for moister because I well have to many to use just one type.



Jake

 

[tlbowling]

That's not really gut loading, that is just feeding.

Gut loading is when you specifically feed your feeders something you want your predatory animal to eat. It is supplementation, like dusting but internal.

So what exactly is the difference? Isnt feeding them, gut loading them? So if I feed the worms veggies, isnt that making them nutritious for the geckos who eat them?

 

[Grip Fast]

a gut loaded mealworm is one that literally has a gut full of feed so when the Leo eats it he will get all of the nutrients still in the mealworm Vs. just eating very healthy mealworms.:main_thumbsup:

Grip