Better Bug Gut-Loading Cricket Diet | 8 Ounce (8 OZ) Bag

Dubia n crickets seem to both enjoy this product. So hopefully it's good fot my dragon for gut loeaed fenders.

Our bearded dragon is getting up there in age and we want to take extra care to give him the best life possible as his senior years kick in. This seems to be just what the doctor ordered. I feed Dubia roachs...and trust me, I had to get a pretty deep education before my wife would even consider allowing me to breed Dubia in our house. I even had conversations with Ken, a professor/biochemist that has been posting research papers on roaches since 1966. I doubt I could have spoken to anybody with more knowledge than Ken. Why? The thought of intentionally having roaches in the house just freaked her out. Longs story short, roaches are such amazing scavengers because they have such a long digestive tract. A meal may pass through a human in a matter of hours, but a meal takes about 72 hours to pass through a roach. This means they can extract a great deal of nutrian before passing the meal out the back end. So, with this in mind, gut loading your live feeder insects is the best way to get the nutrian into your pet, at least for pets that eat the entire bug. I have no clue how it works for siders...? Anyway, I took a sandwich meat container and used a soldiering iron to melt small air holes in the top, my crafty daughter hot glued a large bottle top to the bottom so the water crystals will not tip over, and I use that to hold my bugs while I gut load. I put in this gut load, the water crystals, then sort the feeders and put them in the container for 48+ hours before feeding them to our bearded dragon, "Monster". If the nutrients contained are anywhere near what they have on the label, it has to be good.

My inverts flock to this stuff! I’ve notice visible bulking up of my feeders and it’s much easier to feed than the homemade stuff I usually use.

I feed mealworms with it and they love it!!!

Mazuri makes great products. Would have given this a five, but the package that I was sent was 5 months past its 'best used by' date. I was not too concerned as I was just feeding my feeder crickets and dubias. But come on Amazon, send products out that are appropriately dated for use.

Was suggested this food to gut load my Dubia roaches for my beardie. Never was successful on breeding them until i switched to this food, and a little bit lasts a long time (i also supplement with fresh veggie scraps).

I bought this as a convenient way to add more nutrition to my feeder dubias. However, they haven't touched this at all for several days. They refused to touch it, only going after the water gel I have in their container. I added a carrot finally after a week of using this food--the roaches went to town on the carrot like they were starving. Maybe this food work better with other insects? I don't know. But it hasn't been working out for me.

My crickets LOVE this food! I put in the food I got from the pet store and this food in two different dishes and they devoured the Better Bug food while leaving the other food I’m touched. My crickets are a breeding colony for my lizards and this food along with fresh fruit and veg keeps them healthy. No problem with crickets dying, no smell. On the other hand, my dubias won’t touch it. Strange.