What do you all feed your feeders?

[malt_geckos]

We've been feeding oatmeal and veggies. What do you all think are the best things to feed your feeders?

 

[leoman777]

i keep mine in oatmeal and feed them potatoes, lettuce and just other greens and veggies

 

[Daidra]

I feed all my feeders pro gutload from cody at progeckos and also cheerios as a variety and water crystals for water

 

[Chewbecca]

I feed both my roaches, supers, and mealies Repashy insect gut-load.
My supers get potatoes and strawberries for moisture.
My roaches get water crystals, bananas, strawberries, watermelon, and left over veggies for variety.
My mealies get potatoes for moisture.

 

[snakegirl]

For my mealworms,darkling beetles,superworms/beetles, and my roaches i use pretty much these 3 things.

Potatoes
Romaine lettuce
Apple

But here are some other things i have used.

carrots
Collard greens
Spinach
Cucumbers
Honeydew Melon​

 

[VampyricAngelX]

I have my mealworms, superworms and mealworm beetles on plain oats/wheat bran mixed with a little bit of the calcium I give my geckos. For moisture I give them carrots, as the potatoes I used to use got moldy and made the oats moldy.

 

[Kristi23]

I use Cody's gutload for my mealworms along with carrots for moisture.

The roach's get a high protein mix along with carrots, apples, and whatever else we have at the time, plus water crystals.

 

[malt_geckos]

never thought about feeding the roaches water crystals. The problem I am having is with the dubia colonies. Whenever I feed them anything with a large ammount of water in it, they make a stinky, watery mess and the babies die in it and it gags me. lol. Geesh, never thought about the water crystals.

Kristi- what is the high protein mix you give them?

 

[LizMarie]

Mealworms/Supers; Rolled Oats with Carrots for Moisture.

Dubias; Water Crystals, Dry Dog and Cat Food and either a fruit or Veggie (So far I've tried Carrots, Cucumber, Cantalope, Honey Dew Melon, Potatoes.. Cantalope seems to be irresistable)

 

[BlackDiamondGeckos]

I use a mix of horse and chicken chow for all my feeders. Really cheap and good food. I mix it in a blender and make it pretty fine (I used to use oatmeal, granola, and cereal mixes- works just as well, just more expensive). It tells you the nutritional break down on the bags. I used to use potatoes and carrots and sometime lettuce, but now juz use water crystals. They grow really big. Biggest Mealies I've ever seen.

 

[Haligren]

I use superworms as feeders, although occasionally I toss it up with some crickets and mealies.

For supers I feed potates, orange peel, and carrots for moisture. They live in a oatmeal/wheat bran flake mixture with Fluker's Cricket Feed.

When I have crickets I feed them the Fluker's feed, carrots, potatoes, strawberries, basically any old fruit and veggies I have lying around.

For mealies, I keep them in oatmeal with carrots, potatoes, etc. and Fluker's gutload.

 

[Ciprion]

1 part Oats, 1 part High protien organic cat food, 1/2 part flax seed ground on medium in a coffee grinder...Water crystals for moisture with the crix (if I neeed them) and dubia but carrot, potato or lettuce for the mealies...

 

[acpart]

All the feeders get Progeckos gutload with vegetable scraps for moisture. The crickets get water crystals as well.

ALiza

 

[Kristi23]

never thought about feeding the roaches water crystals. The problem I am having is with the dubia colonies. Whenever I feed them anything with a large ammount of water in it, they make a stinky, watery mess and the babies die in it and it gags me. lol. Geesh, never thought about the water crystals.

Kristi- what is the high protein mix you give them?

I'm not sure what it is, but I buy it from the places we get the roaches from (when we had to buy them). We tried ground up cat food, but they eat the protein food way more. They usually seem to empty it now.

 

[Redleg]

I got tired of making my own feed/gutload for my mealies and crickets so I bought Cody's Pro-Gutload. So far so good. I have had no problems with the crickets, the jury is still out for the mealies, but otherwise, very happy with the Pro-Gutload.

Much easier in that you have one feed that pretty much covers all the vitamins/nutrients, etc vs. oat bran that has to be supplemented with veggies, etc. I just use the Pro-Gutload and gell for a water source. Very low maintenance once I made the switch from my own creation to Pro-Gutload.

 

[Bellalee]

I make my own and use some of Paco's roach food(I think that's what it is) for all of them.. mealies/superworms/dubias ... and water crystals for all.. I'd forget about the pieces of vegetables, and they would rot.. Plus anything that could really smell.. I just cant do.

 

[OhMyGecko]

for supers and mealies, do you just put the water crystals right on top of the gutload or do you put it on something, like a dish?

 

[Bellalee]

I put my water crystals both places suprisingly they find the water crystals and obviously they are doing ok if I have a insignificant loss of life.

 

[Chewbecca]

I know I already responded to this, and I know a LOT of crested gecko people have been doing this for a LOOOONG time, but I recently started gut-loading my roaches with old CGD.
Since I'm going to toss out what my rhacodactylus geckos don't eat, I might as well make use of it and feed it to my roaches.

By the time the roaches get it, it's usually a thick, snotty paste type texture, and they just GOBBLE it ALL up.
And it has enough moisture in it to keep them WELL hydrated.

I dump it onto a paper plate, cut the center out with the CGD on it, and my husband places it in the bin.


It makes my roaches nice and plump. FAST.
And my geckos just INHALE the roaches.


And it's basically free since I have to feed my rhac geckos anyway.

Now I can save my Repashy Insect Gut-load and Paco Mix for my supers and mealies.

I think if I had to buy CGD just to keep my roaches gut-loaded, it'd be worth it. The stuff goes VERY far.

 

[Palor]

A great green to use for gutloading is Kale. I would recomend using it over any of the lettuces.