Mazuri High Calcium Cricket Diet: a Zookeeper's Thoughts

[Mentat]

Interesting product; but please note their own quote at Lynn's linked page: "This diet is to be fed to crickets in order to increase the calcium level of the gut-fill; this helps balance the calcium to phosphorus ratio of the crickets and other feeder insects when they are consumed by animals. This diet is not intended for use in breeding or raising crickets". So this is good to enrich with CA crickets being fed in 24 hours or so; and not to make them grow .

[findiviglio]

Interesting product; but please note their own quote at Lynn's linked page: "This diet is to be fed to crickets in order to increase the calcium level of the gut-fill; this helps balance the calcium to phosphorus ratio of the crickets and other feeder insects when they are consumed by animals. This diet is not intended for use in breeding or raising crickets". So this is good to enrich with CA crickets being fed in 24 hours or so; and not to make them grow .

Good point, thanks....I believe that is in response to past concerns over high-Ca diets; I've used long term w/o losses, but to be on safe side one could use a standard cricket diet or fish flakes with fruit/vegetables, etc. best, Frank