Canned Crickets

[DCrews]

Just this morning while doing research on whites tree frogs i came across article about a very sick whites frog. He was suffering from MBD.
The frog was fed those canned crickets all his life and the owner never dusted them.
I dont believe any vitamins or calcium is added to these canned crickets at all. I imagine if dusting them would have made them ok to use?
I have used them in the past, but for a tiger salamander, he was on them for several years and did fine...but tiger salamanders arent prone to MBD

I'd like to know too if canned crickets are ok to use IF they are dusted with calc and vit supplements, since using straight out of the can has proven to not meet the dietary needs of a whites tree frog

That's interesting. I've been dusting both the live and canned crickets.

[gtr319]

i only dust mine with calcium dust, what else am i missing?

[kittiekuddles]

i only dust mine with calcium dust, what else am i missing?

I thought vitamins, but i guess thats not necessary?

[gtr319]

heck... maybe i should get the vitamins as well and swap them each feeding... or.... dust both... pwahahaha

[kittiekuddles]

heck... maybe i should get the vitamins as well and swap them each feeding... or.... dust both... pwahahaha

im gonna do both myself, i dont know why...but im gonna