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My dubia colonies have been thriving for ages on pure unmedicated chick feed. I supplement them with fruits and veggies, sure, but they'd reproduce just fine on nothing but the chick feed. I'm beginning to think that hissers won't follow the same nutrition. I can certainly tell that the feed I've poured in has diminished, but nowhere near the rate that I thought it would for such large inverts. They seem fond of fruit, but I despise feeding fruit so often due to the flies reproducing in uneaten bits.
The simple solution would be to just feed fresh food... which isn't much of an option to me. I'm trying to make a production here, and that's not quite easy enough. I'm looking for a dry food that they'll readily eat and that I'll supplement with fresh food, just like the dubia colonies. Does anyone have success with such a food? Dried fruits came to mind, but those are so ungodly expensive.
The simple solution would be to just feed fresh food... which isn't much of an option to me. I'm trying to make a production here, and that's not quite easy enough. I'm looking for a dry food that they'll readily eat and that I'll supplement with fresh food, just like the dubia colonies. Does anyone have success with such a food? Dried fruits came to mind, but those are so ungodly expensive.