The Ultamate Gut Load Cook Book

[Vyeguy]

Okay guys lets make the Ultamate Gut load cook book. I figured the forum needs this and could help out alot of people. Not everyone useing the same mix or recipie to make their gut loads.

If a Mod or Admin could please sticky this then it will be easy accessible to everyone.



Thanks Vyeguy

 

[spykerherps]

Along with fresh fruits and veggies I feed my feeders a dry mix I make ingredients are:
whole corn
wheat bran
oat groats
flax seed
buckwheat
hemp
millet
small amount Oyster shell
Roudy Bush pellets
petamine
I used to have access to most of this stuff at my old job may have to modify it a bit but I believe I can find everything again.

don't have the amounts just did it by look put everything in a mill and ground it down to a nice fine consistency

 

[Vyeguy]

Dry Gutload

.25 lbs of bran
1 cup of primium dog food (Solid gold, Form, ect)
1 table spoon powders milk
1 cup of oats
5 dried liver dog treats

toss in a food processor blend untill mixed
bake in oven at 350 for 5 minutes.
keep in zip-lock container I keep it by my leo tank last me awhile

Wet gutload
1 cup of carrots
1 large patato
1 orange
+ any left over salad(NO DRESSING), Bell pepers, Apples
Blend untill smoothie like consistancy
Refrigerate last about a week.

 

[spykerherps]

may I ask why you blend the fresh food as apposed to feeding chunks or slices?

 

[Vyeguy]

found it easier to store in the fridge and did not see as big of a dish for the cricket tank. only reason if been thinking of making a big batch and then fezzing them in ice cubes. then i can just pull them out as needed.


what no one else makes thier own gutload?

 

[Haligren]

My gutload is nothing fancy as I can't afford (at the moment) buying all the organic ingredients that I'd like to put together. So currently it's the following;

Fluker's Brand Cricket Gutload
Organic oatmeal
Organic bran flakes (for bedding, although I'm thinking of changing this to something more nutritious, perhaps flax seed?)

For moisture;

orange peels
baby carrots sliced
potatoe slices

I use the same gutload for crickets as I do for supers. Seems to do very well.

 

[spykerherps]

yes we gutload all our feeders on the same stuff mealies, supers, crickets, dubia and lats they all love the stuff for the roaches we just add some high grade organic dry cat food for protein. We didn't buy it for the roaches my aunt bought a big bag of it for her cats and they wouldn't eat it so she gave it to us. We probably got a 5 year supply.

We noticed a big improvement when we started feeding it to the crickets. Much more robust and juicy they even seemed to jump higher. and it seemed our leo hatchlings grew bigger and faster.

 

[Chewbecca]

yes we gutload all our feeders on the same stuff mealies, supers, crickets, dubia and lats they all love the stuff for the roaches we just add some high grade organic dry cat food for protein. We didn't buy it for the roaches my aunt bought a big bag of it for her cats and they wouldn't eat it so she gave it to us. We probably got a 5 year supply.

We noticed a big improvement when we started feeding it to the crickets. Much more robust and juicy they even seemed to jump higher. and it seemed our leo hatchlings grew bigger and faster.

I'm bumping this so that I know what to use for a gutload for our lobster roaches.
I was going to feed just high premium dog food with really high protein, but I think I'll add some other things, too.

I don't intend to breed roaches as it stands right now, but I will be buying more than they'll eat at one time, so therefore I'll have to store them. Which means I'll have to feed them.

 

[Ciprion]

Hi I just ordered about 200 dubias and I currently have 1 (soon to be 2) Leos and am looking into either a PacMan or Beardie....Anyhoo, I am thinking about feeding a ground catfood/dogfood, oatmeal, flax seed mix and want to know how "complete" this seems as I dont fully understand the mechanics behind roach nutrition other than that they need a good healthy carb and protein source. Also how would I add calcium to their diet? Is it as simple as throwing some calcium tabs from GNC into the mix or what?

 

[Frognut]

Wow, I never gave that much thought to gut loading, since I only use superworms, and was told they didn't need gut loading :main_no:. I use fresh bran flakes and throw in pureed veggies and someone suggested to add powdered milk (never did, wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not).

But now I'm going to see what I can drum up in the kitchen. Your feeders eat better than I do!

 

[Chewbecca]

I am currently gut-loading my mealies.
HOPE that I'm doing it right.
I didn't have bran flakes or cornmeal in my house, so I opted for oatmeal oats (not instant) and I ground up some high quality dog food and green tripe treats, threw in some sea kelp, sliced up some baby carrots, and cut a wedge of potato and threw it in there.
This is what it looks like (well, part of it, anyway):

This is just temporary gut-load. I am ordering pre-made gut-load for the mealies from my new girl's breeder.
I will also be purchasing mealies online from a store because I would like to get away from using any of our local pet stores for anything.
I am NOT breeding them, just gut-loading.

 

[EchoPet]

My current feeder bins:

Organic baby oatmeal
Organic wheat bran
Powered baby formula

Evo dog food
Aqueon tropical fish flakes

Potato
Apple
Carrot
Orange
Broccoli
Bell Pepper
Spinach

Calcium
Herpivite

 

[Ratman667]

Did some research.

I am going to start making my own gut load for my crickets. I want it to have the highest possible calcium content I could. I went to the library today to do some research on what fruits and vegetables that have lots of calcium.

This is the recipe that I plan to use. It makes four cups and (if my calculations are correct) contains roughly 1000mg of calcium.


Cabbage ----------- ½ cup - 190mg
Dry White Beans --- ½ cup - 80mg
Orange -------------½ cup - 52mg
Dried Figs ---------½ cup - 280mg
Parsley –-----------1 cup - 330mg
Potato -------------½ cup - 10mg
Carrot -------------½ cup – 100mg

This will be blended to a salsa like mix.

If any of these are toxic to reptiles, please let me know. I haven't bought anything yet, so no worries about hurting them yet...

This is obviously for a wet mix. It was a little harder finding nutritional information on raw seeds and grains. Chances are I will just use a ground up mix of bird seed, high protein dog food and fortified with powdered whole milk for my dry mix.

 

[Driver]

Thanks for this resource everyone this is very informative.