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Homemade Dry Cricket Feed
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<blockquote data-quote="CosbyArt" data-source="post: 274686" data-attributes="member: 8168"><p>A good question, and unfortunately one that I can not answer; however, as the crickets are primary kept as feeders it is likely the high calcium and protein are simply for mantises (and anything else) that eats the crickets, most likely balanced for reptiles. So in that regard I imagine the long-term effects are not a concern as they are often used as feeders rather quickly.</p><p></p><p>I was hoping someone could contribute a nutritional fact sheet or something for crickets (especially to feed for better nutrition for mantises), as mentioned in post one, but still haven't heard or found anything myself.</p><p></p><p>The best I have found are the ingredients listed in some commercial cricket feed, and advertised ingredients - so that is open to interpretation of real usage. From that information there seem to be two main ingredients which the commercial feed are high in, and advertised for, which is protein and calcium. The real question about the feed, are the ingredients primary for the mantises that eat the crickets, or the crickets themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CosbyArt, post: 274686, member: 8168"] A good question, and unfortunately one that I can not answer; however, as the crickets are primary kept as feeders it is likely the high calcium and protein are simply for mantises (and anything else) that eats the crickets, most likely balanced for reptiles. So in that regard I imagine the long-term effects are not a concern as they are often used as feeders rather quickly. I was hoping someone could contribute a nutritional fact sheet or something for crickets (especially to feed for better nutrition for mantises), as mentioned in post one, but still haven't heard or found anything myself. The best I have found are the ingredients listed in some commercial cricket feed, and advertised ingredients - so that is open to interpretation of real usage. From that information there seem to be two main ingredients which the commercial feed are high in, and advertised for, which is protein and calcium. The real question about the feed, are the ingredients primary for the mantises that eat the crickets, or the crickets themselves. [/QUOTE]
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