Feeding edible mushrooms to crickets/feeders

[kylecchh]

I know that mushrooms contain a nice amount of chitin, would it be fine to feed raw edible mushrooms to the crickets? Would this have any nutritional value for the T's, or possibly help their exoskeleton develop? Or would the crickets even go near the mushroom?
Thanks,
Kyle

 

[Travis K]

try it and see what happens.

 

[kylecchh]

try it and see what happens.

Err, I don't want to do that, what if all mushrooms (even edible ones) are harmful to theraphosids?

 

[Skullptor]

These aren't from a cow pasture are they?

 

[IrishPolishman]

Just the simple fact that fungus's are bad inside the enclosure would make this idea seem horrible to me. I would do everything to keep fungus away from the animals. You never know what the fungus is actually capable of doing and could potentially be very hard to get rid of if introduced and having a negative affect.

 

[ShellsandScales]

I would double check to make sure mushrooms contain chitin something about that doesn't sound right, but I'm no expert. The other thing to consider is that the chitin is likely not digestable and would pass in their feces and provide no value. In humans you burn more calories digesting mushrooms than they provide so I really don't see it as beneficial or worth the cost of mushrooms for that matter but it would be worth looking into.

 

[Travis K]

I feed partially moldy food to my roaches every now and then with no problems. Hell my AGM babies are liking moldy over fresh veggies. I really don't think that feeding crickets shrooms is going to be bad for the Ts, but if you are really concerned about it then don't do it.

Portobellos any one, hey what about truffles?

 

[jb7741]

hey what about truffles?

Yeah, but only the chocolate covered kind:}

 

[codykrr]

well considering muchrooms have no to slim nutritional value....it wouldnt be worth letting all those spore get in your enclosure...in the wild beetles lay there eggs in the stem of mushrooms and there eaten by the larve. but thats not inside....all i see happenening is rotting pieces or chunks of mushrooms in an encloser filled with gnats and mold(yes mushrooms rot and mold ironicaly.....) even that being said...you can just as well feed them fruit and dog food....they like it, and also, haha cow pie shrooms 99.99% of the time are infested with maggots and beetle larve....so never eat raw cow pie shrooms! or dried....because unless your a mycologist, you could identifie them properly enough to be safe since 90% of LBMs are deadly toxic(little brown mushrooms) and over 70% of those disolve your liver! so moral dont eat wild picked shrooms unless your a mycologist or are with one!

 

[Moltar]

My B dubia go absolutely crazy for plain ol button mushrooms from the store. They don't really touch apples, cat food or carrots so much until the mushrooms are gone. B lateralis aren't as enthusiastic though although they do eat some of them.

 

[kylecchh]

The shrooms would spore even if you bought them at a store? Darn, that makes me think twice about eating mushrooms, lol. Thought it might possibly good idea to help the exoskeleton develop, oh well.