Fluker's Orange Cube Cricket food

Speed Gimp

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Does anyone have any experience with this? I recently saw it in a pet store and was considering it at an alternate food source for my Blue Death Feigning Beetles.

-Gimpy

 
Given the lack of response, I guess no one has tried it. So while I was at the pet store today, I picked some of it up to give it a try.

Here's the information on the label:

Crude Protein not less than 3.5%

Crude Fat not less than 0.1%

Crude Fiber not more than 0.5%

Moisture not more than 92%

Calcium not less than 560 ppm

Ingredients: Water, Carageenan, Soya Protein, Dried Brewer's Yeast, Dried Kelp, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Sorbate, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Yellow #6 food color.

My initial thoughts:

It smells. The smell isn't super strong, but it's a tad unpleasant to my senses. Considering that the moistened dog food I've been using produces no odor, this is a negative for me. The food looks like gummy vitamin cubes, but when you hold them they are very moist to the touch. If it wasn't for the smell, I might have crushed one of the cubes in my fingers to see how much (if any) water comes out. If all the critters I feed take to it and it's nutritious, I can overlook the smell.

It's been about 4 hours since I've put it in the cages. The millipedes, crickets, and BDFB have not touched it. Only the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molito?) have approached it.

Let's see what happens overnight.

-Gimpy

 
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I haven't tried it with anything other than crickets.

The dry cricket foods work with my inverts though. The Eleodes, Z. morio, and mealworms seem to like it. I just give them a variety of stuff and see what they eat. Their favorite is Fish food flakes
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well i dont like one of those water crystal and orange cubes because it seems that it doesnt match their environment.
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so i ike to use more nature stuff like carrots, spinach, brocoli etc for water, i soak cotton balls into water
 
I have not tried it either but I do give my Darklings hermit crab and tadpole food along with dog food as dried processed feed. For grains I use oatmeal and ground flaxseed. For veggies and fruit it's red and green lettuce, apples, potatoes, carrots and cucumber. I tried banana but they all turned thier little beetle noses up at it then it got gross... Boiled egg was also a failure. I want to try a mushroom but I keep forgetting to buy organic when I'm at the store.

 
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Speed Gimp said:
It's been about 4 hours since I've put it in the cages. The millipedes, crickets, and BDFB have not touched it. Only the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molito?) have approached it.

Let's see what happens overnight.
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Anything to report?
 
The organic chopped porti mushrooms were $4 a pound and the non-organic ones are $2.50 a pound. Only a $1.50 difference and my family eats a lot of mushrooms so none will go to waste unless the beetles don't eat theirs!

 
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Orin said:
Anything to report?
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The Blue Death Feigning Beetles don't touch it. I guess it's back to the dog food for them. They seem to like the dog food alot

The crickets picket at it, but don't ravage it the way I expected. Same with millipedes and mealworm beetles.

They all seem to prefer the dog food. I'm switching the BDFB back to dog food but keeping everyone else on the Fluker's Orange Cubes a bit longer.

-Gimpy

 
tert100 said:
can you feed these to laarvae of d tityus??
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Looking at the ingredients I wouldn't bother, its 92% water and 3% protein so they are going to have to eat a lot more of it to get the same nutritional value they would from tackling a lump of dog food with a 25% protein content.

 
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Not sure what brands you have in the US. The most reliable one /most often used in the UK is made by Purina, it is a semi-moist dog food called "Bakers Complete" that does not mould very fast (or at all) when placed in the substrate. This brand is only made for the UK market, but I am pretty sure Purina will do something very similar for the US.

 
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