NEW enriched Vitabugs - reduce your need to gutload or dust your feeder crickets!

[LLLReptile]

Existing feeder insect choices do not provide complete nutrition for captive insect eaters, as a result, dusting or gut-loading is necessary. Even when used properly, many existing commercial gut-loading products and dusts do not provide appropriate nutrition.


After years of research and development the first vitamin and nutrient complete diet* for nourishing feeder insects has been created; Vita-Bugs. The patent pending feed enhances the content of critical nutrients in feeder insects therefore reducing the need to dust or gut-load.


Vita-Bug insects raised on our patent pending feed have been proven to maintain the increased vitamin and nutrient levels throughout their growing process, unlike most gut-loading or dusting techniques that expel their improvements in short time.


ALL SIZES
500 for $39.99
1,000 for $46.99
2,000 for $69.99
5,000 for $129.99


Pinheads
1/8" crickets
1/4" crickets
1/2" crickets
3/4" crickets
1" crickets


Plus, order mealworms and other feeder insects at a discount when placed with your cricket or vitabug order!


For ALL of our feeder insects, please visit our website!


-Jen

[Mentat]

Hi Jen! Not sure understand this "Vitabugs" even after visiting and reading your website page.

Do these come with the patent pending feed mentioned in add? If not; how long will they keep their special nutrient capabilities? Thank you !

[LLLReptile]

They do not come with the food; rather, as they are grown, the food they eat (that patent pending formula) actually adds extra nutrients to their exoskeleton. So instead of being primarily phosphorus, they have extra nutrients in their exoskeleton. Here's a link to their nutrition breakdown - basically, because they have extra nutrients in them, you don't need to dust your crickets much, if at all.

I would still suggest feeding them a good gutload formula, as their stomachs can still contain nutrients and calories that way, but the big upside of these is that they aren't just an empty, phosphorus rich husk you have to compensate for when you're feeding your animals.

Does that help?

-Jen

[Mentat]

Thank Jen ! From your answer, the special crickets will keep these extra nutrients in their exoskeleton even when fed other food. What happens if they are juveniles and molt as they grow? Thank you !

[LLLReptile]

I actually asked Timberline directly to check on that, and the crickets will still have some extra nutrition in their muscles, fibers, all the gooey bits that make them up inside the exoskeleton.

To quote them directly,
"As far as calcium goes, the vita crickets do not have "extra" calcium. Too much calcium will kill a cricket. That is why we recommend supplementing with calci-worms for the calcium needed and waxworms if any extra fat is needed. The embedded levels of vitamin A, and E are in the very fiber of the cricket and they do not lose that."

Hope that helps!

-Jen