cricket dusting

[Hairyspider]

Not sure if this topic has been covered before, being as I'm somewhat of a newbie, but I was wondering if its nesesary to dust crickets with vitimin suppliment powders. Or are they nutritionaly sufficiant on their own?

Any thoughts?

William

 

[wsimms]

I just gut load my crickets, although I must confess that I occasionally use a vitamin spray on them. I don't see how it's possible to grind up a cricket the way they do and not ingest a little of the stuff. I am careful, though, because all the vitamin supplements I have found are for reptiles, and I suspect it would be very easy to O.D. a T with them if you went too far with it.

W

 

[Buspirone]

I gutload the crickets which seems safer. I'm afraid to dust the crikets with vitamin powder out of fear of causing a toxicity in my Ts. I don't know if anyone else "dusts".

 

[AudreyElizabeth]

Nah, I would leave the dust for the reptiles. Gut loading should be fine. A little variety never hurt anyone either!

 

[arcane]

I've heard that excess calcium (which is in most of those dusts) can cause constipation an death in insects, that's why they started dusting in addition to gut-loading. Now I'm no arachnid physiology expert, but it seems to me this might also be bad for Ts then.