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24-Jun-04, 07:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Red Centre Age: 30 | | |
Has anyone seen and tried the gutload in a sachet that is supplied with tubs of crickets and mealworms??????
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24-Jun-04, 07:15 PM
| | | | Yes.. Dunno what results it had but yup |
24-Jun-04, 07:16 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Darwin Age: 18 | | | | yeah kind weird though but its free
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24-Jun-04, 07:20 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Red Centre Age: 30 | | | | Whilst crickets etc sit on the shelf they lose nutrition, by gutloading you increase their nutritional value. This will make sure your pet gets more nutrition as well. Over in the States and the UK it has been popular for years
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24-Jun-04, 07:30 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | | I buy Pisces brand crix, ive never had any kind of sache????? I just feed em up on fresh veggies, and dry meaty rings for dogs. :wink:
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24-Jun-04, 07:33 PM
| | | Actually I have read a paper, that has found gut loading does not actually benefit reptiles in a large way.. i will have to dig it out and scan it in...it is like 5 pages long  |
24-Jun-04, 07:35 PM
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24-Jun-04, 07:38 PM
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24-Jun-04, 08:21 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: No where | | | | I feed my roaches veggies and rat cubes and every few weeks i dust the veggies in calcium powder.
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24-Jun-04, 08:27 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | Mine get the dust from the rat pellets, veggies or fruit for water and left over chicken bones or small rats or mice that are refused by the snakes. A good supplement that I have found for them is expired baby formula, lots of vitamins and calcium there and a heap of protein as all.
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24-Jun-04, 08:37 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: No where | | | Baby formula.... thats a good idea. I better find a girl who has a baby 
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24-Jun-04, 08:44 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | lol, I get mine from the hospital, they throw heaps of it out. So you can find yourself a nurse instead 
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24-Jun-04, 08:46 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: No where | | | Thats even better......i don't like kids 
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25-Jun-04, 08:26 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Adelaide, Planet Earth Gender:  | | | | SWEET!! Didn't know about the baby stuff!! Was trying the guload, but think I like the idea of formula better!! Least I know what's in THAT!! |
25-Jun-04, 10:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Hey guys, We dust the dried cat food for the Crix, Woodies etc with Calcium Powder and Skim Milk powder, seems to do the trick. We have thousands and thousands of Crix at the moment. Cheers Cheryl PS. The WGTF's love the feeder roaches hey? | | |
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