Gutloading & Calcium for Leos

Hey guys....for the calcium for leos what brand do you find best?? Just curious as to you own preferences.

And should I use Cricket Quenchers to help gutload? I'm also going to be feeidnt htem fruits of course. Just curious again!

I just ordered Rep-Cal from Big Apple. It'll be the first calcium supplement I've ever used...so I can't say I have a favorite.

As for gut-loading...use whatever works. Again, I don't have the experience (yet!) to answer that. But I'll tell you what I discovered in my own research. Gut-loaded crickets die MUCH faster than regularly fed crickets...so be careful. Only load up the ones you intend to feed the next day...about 12 hours before feeding to the leos.

I use this tuff that says herp care on it. Works really well. I dust everything with it.

Get the gut load that is sold in small cubes of green jello like stuff. If you've got a spare 10 gallon you could keep so many crickets...

I use Re-Cal as well. Great stuff. Best on the market IMO. For gutloading you want to offer a variety of food....mainly protein (dry dog food works perfect), fresh fruit and veggies, potatos, and spirulina flakes (fish food).

How on earth could you keep crickets in an aquarium and not have a bad monster movie every time you opened the top?

LOL....Crickets are a pain, I admit. Thats why I'm a snake guy mostly. ;)

Aha, so there's not some easy secret to it that I just didn't know about? I thought the answer was going to be something along the lines of "Duh, Marla, you use the Super Duper Cricket Keeper Tank Top (TM)!" or some such. :)

Hey, ya'll should write a review on some of products :P

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Originally Posted by Marla

Aha, so there's not some easy secret to it that I just didn't know about? I thought the answer was going to be something along the lines of "Duh, Marla, you use the Super Duper Cricket Keeper Tank Top (TM)!" or some such. :)

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LOL. :wink:

Well, if any of you find the secret, I expect to see it here! :lol:

Hey guys...I just got back and I have to be 18 so my mom is picking me up to take me. But I did pick up reptocal.

Also I am gonna pick up a big plastic container for the crix...I already have one for the mealies. I have a big container with like 50 mealies and some apples.....with oatmeal. But I just picked up 500 lol

you have to be 18 to buy crickets? rofl. whats that all about?

"That's an offensive weapon, that is."

LOL...I keep looking for that secret, too, Marla. It's one reason I've waited as long as I have before trying to get a beardie. Crickets are a big deterent. I've walked by the big cricket tanks in my pet store tons of times, though. It's not quite so horrific as you'd thing...just a bit creepy. LOL

No no.....I have to be 18 to get the Leos....sorry didnt make that clear enough!

Judy, I'm actually okay with them in the tanks, though not enthusiastic about the noise. It's what happens when you open the tank that I have a problem with! I don't want crickets all over my house. I'd have to have free-roaming lizards then, I think!

The ones in the pet store are in deep tanks, so they can't get out. I don't think they jump very high...

John suggested a 10-gal as a suitable enclosure, and I pictured thousands of free-roaming crickets in my house. ::shivers:: yuck!

we order by the thousand, gutload with a variety of products and foods, depending on the species who are feeding off them.
We keep ours in a huge rubbermaid tub, keep milk crates stacked flat instead on up and down, so their is less chance of escapes. Sometimes it happens, but we have the best cricket catcher, our four year old! He loves to catch them, and we lift him up to let him feed them to the fish.
I'll double check the products we use for vit / mineral/ calcium powder. Again on the latter it depends on the animal we are feeding too.
Thanks
Rusty

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Originally Posted by Rusty

...but we have the best cricket catcher, our four year old! He loves to catch them, and we lift him up to let him feed them to the fish.

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Awwwwww....that's the cutest mental image I've had all day! Who wouldn't want a couple of free-roaming crickets with a tyke like that around???

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I'd be counting on lazy cats to catch any escapees. Care to loan out your catcher? ;)

18 for leos... still... Parents must not trust you eh?:):( Ive given my lil bro (10 a leo and hes in perfect health) And im going to get him another.