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Mantid Discussions
Food and Feeding
leaving for a trip, will my mantis be okay without food for 10ish days?
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<blockquote data-quote="craigbaker" data-source="post: 348899" data-attributes="member: 8904"><p>What is needed to understand is if the gut load for gheckos can even be metabolized by mantids. Gut-loading for reptiles ie via a mouse or a cricket a method for administering medication or supplements which aren’t necessarily digested fully by the feeder, they transport the load to the insectivore. Mostly in gheckos and some reptiles in captivity, calcium is supplemented.</p><p>Question is does ghecko gut load (mostly calcium) have to do with mantids? Can they even synthesize it, or could it even be toxic? </p><p>I know people like to do what they think is best but I think your confusing the biological needs of different organisms, somewhat like the administering of honey to mantids? Useless If not detrimental to them. May as well give chicken soup! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏻♂️" title="🤷🏻♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png" />. </p><p>If anyone has any real science on this topic please feel free, but spreading misinformation is a travesty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="craigbaker, post: 348899, member: 8904"] What is needed to understand is if the gut load for gheckos can even be metabolized by mantids. Gut-loading for reptiles ie via a mouse or a cricket a method for administering medication or supplements which aren’t necessarily digested fully by the feeder, they transport the load to the insectivore. Mostly in gheckos and some reptiles in captivity, calcium is supplemented. Question is does ghecko gut load (mostly calcium) have to do with mantids? Can they even synthesize it, or could it even be toxic? I know people like to do what they think is best but I think your confusing the biological needs of different organisms, somewhat like the administering of honey to mantids? Useless If not detrimental to them. May as well give chicken soup! 🤷🏻♂️. If anyone has any real science on this topic please feel free, but spreading misinformation is a travesty. [/QUOTE]
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leaving for a trip, will my mantis be okay without food for 10ish days?
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