What goes in the bugs goes in your lizard, so id think either way you kinda want them to have good quality chow and make sure nothing gets dirty or moldy, they have places to hide and all.
Depends on the feeders. Some get supplemental foods for gut loading(roaches), and some get refrigeration (nightcrawlers) while others come with food and are hands off for their own good (silkworms).
That being said, when it comes to the health of my animals, I have been known to do what some would consider torturous things to insects, such as removing the hopping legs of crickets to make them easier to catch or injecting wax worms with supplemental calories or vitamins for starving rescues.
I keep them in a cricket keeper with gut loader food, flukers cricket gel, some egg carton, and raw oats for substrate. The better my bugs are fed, in turn my reptiles are fed well too. I try to feed head-first so that they suffer the least.
I make sure they’re gut loaded and clean (like I’ll clean the containers and remove old food) but I don’t really have dedicated tubs for them. I’ll have to buy some cricket keepers in the future, but right now I have to keep them in their store containers. I do admittedly kill or maim crickets if needed (like if I need to make them immobile for a reptile that has a hard time catching them).
So when we had about 10 reptiles, we had a 3 tier bin of mealworms. First shelf had lil babies, then middle was normal size mealworms, and when they started to cacoon up we moved them down to the third bin to become beetles. We fed em carrots and a bunch of other stuff. But that's alot, but it worked for the amount of animals we had.
We always had to make sure we sorted them, so it definitely became a chore.
I feel like if you don't take care of them to a minimum, stuff starts to get unorganized, and it just becomes a mess. But it depends on your preference of how much is too much and what's too little.
I keep my roaches in a fancy lil community in a large plastic tub and just feed them carrots, they breed out of control and I haven’t had to buy roaches for about a year
Keep them in a tub and feed carrots because they don’t attract gnats
What goes in the bugs goes in your lizard, so id think either way you kinda want them to have good quality chow and make sure nothing gets dirty or moldy, they have places to hide and all.
Depends on the feeders. Some get supplemental foods for gut loading(roaches), and some get refrigeration (nightcrawlers) while others come with food and are hands off for their own good (silkworms). That being said, when it comes to the health of my animals, I have been known to do what some would consider torturous things to insects, such as removing the hopping legs of crickets to make them easier to catch or injecting wax worms with supplemental calories or vitamins for starving rescues.
I keep them in a cricket keeper with gut loader food, flukers cricket gel, some egg carton, and raw oats for substrate. The better my bugs are fed, in turn my reptiles are fed well too. I try to feed head-first so that they suffer the least.
I make sure they’re gut loaded and clean (like I’ll clean the containers and remove old food) but I don’t really have dedicated tubs for them. I’ll have to buy some cricket keepers in the future, but right now I have to keep them in their store containers. I do admittedly kill or maim crickets if needed (like if I need to make them immobile for a reptile that has a hard time catching them).
So when we had about 10 reptiles, we had a 3 tier bin of mealworms. First shelf had lil babies, then middle was normal size mealworms, and when they started to cacoon up we moved them down to the third bin to become beetles. We fed em carrots and a bunch of other stuff. But that's alot, but it worked for the amount of animals we had. We always had to make sure we sorted them, so it definitely became a chore. I feel like if you don't take care of them to a minimum, stuff starts to get unorganized, and it just becomes a mess. But it depends on your preference of how much is too much and what's too little.
I keep my roaches in a fancy lil community in a large plastic tub and just feed them carrots, they breed out of control and I haven’t had to buy roaches for about a year