Culturing Crickets - Care and Breeding of the Common House Cricket

[Paul Rust]

Can I use the calcium supplement Repcal with D3 instead of the powdered milk? I have 5 jars of the stuff that I got from a friend that doesn't have reptiles anymore. I would like to use it up before it expires. If this is ok, what would be the ratio of cat food to calcium supplement to vitamins? If you think the milk is better, that's ok I don't mind using it, just please tell me which ones best. Thank you for your time. Oh, and I'm using Purina cat chow, is that ok?

I see no reason not to use the Rep-Cal other than cost.
Any cat food is good, it's the high protien content that you want.

[Greenlove]

Can you please tell me the ratio to cat food to calcium supplement to Herptivite. Would it still be the half a blender of cat food, 10% Repcal, 1% Herptivite?

[Paul Rust]

I wouldn't change the ratio at all, in fact I have a surplus of Rep-Cal as well and am going to use it in the next batch and see how it goes. As long as the crickets survive on it, I don't care how much they get.