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 #1772328


Chezequers
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 Dust locusts

it’s myth that u dont need to dust your locusts. Dill has MBD due to me following that logic

just a warning guys
06/24/08  06:23pm

 #1772436


Silabiss
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   Message To: Chezequers   In reference to Message Id: 1772328


 Dust locusts

Sorry to hear that chez.

As a general rule, any animal that is diurnal should be dusted with calcium as well as vitamins. I personally dust about 4 times a week, along with using a variety of foods. My crickets are feed organic vegtables and fruit, given a variety of oats, flax seed and monkey chow that is crushed up(it is a lab diet that we use on all our feeder insects since it is free and is high protein with balanced nutrients.) Reptile nutrition is a poorly understood aspect of husbandry still, and that is why i spend as much time giving my animals a variety in diet and choice, along with gut loading my feeders with what the natural diet of the animal may be. I have used almost every fruit and vegetable that i can find to see what crickets will eat.

As a secondary precaution, with how Vitamin D is converted to Calcium and such, it is absolutely necessary for Frilleds (along with other diurnal herps) to get full spectrum lighting, with out it they will never be able to create calcium in its usable form and even with dusting it would still be possible for an animal to get MBD.
06/24/08  08:11pm

 #1773287


Chezequers
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   Message To: Silabiss   In reference to Message Id: 1772436


 Dust locusts

i’m aware but nutritional value of locusts suggest they wouldnt need dusting however i have good reason to believe other wise

R.I.P Dill
06/25/08  02:33pm

 #1773491


Angelkitty
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   Message To: Chezequers   In reference to Message Id: 1773287


 Dust locusts

OMG! I am SO sorry to hear about Dill. RIP Dill
Angel



06/25/08  05:57pm

 #1774102


DV
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   Message To: Angelkitty   In reference to Message Id: 1773491


 Dust locusts

Chezequers............I’m sorry to hear about Dill . Can I ask what were the signs of mbd in Dill (if you don’t mind)
06/26/08  09:09am

 #1774190


Chippychop
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   Message To: DV   In reference to Message Id: 1774102


 Dust locusts

you know when it come to a two hundred dollah lizard and up /the last thing you’lkd want to do is give it lack of vitamins/I say dust every time//I even will gut load my mice/crickets /and even the little lizards I feed my frilly, they get get dusted too.why on earth wouldn’t a person dust??????thanks for the post Chip! sorry to here about your loss /that always sucks!
06/26/08  10:46am

 #1774203


Chezequers
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   Message To: DV   In reference to Message Id: 1774102


 Dust locusts

it started with lack of movement which was subtle since he was a lazy guy anyway
then he ate less
then dusted crickets weren’t food any more
then he didnt want locusts
then he gradually got thinner
then spent all his time on the heat mat asleep
then he died

it was over a few weeks i tried a few different tricks to get him eating again before the vets and if they had kept him longer than over night he may be alive still but oh well no use dwelling.



and in response to chip, many care sheets like to tell you the nutrition of a locust is sufficient for a lizards vitamin and calcium without dusting which is as this post hopefully informed people incorrect



06/26/08  10:53am

 #1774506


Coults
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   Message To: Chezequers   In reference to Message Id: 1774203


 Dust locusts

dust everything evertime unless its a mouse
06/26/08  03:31pm


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