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« on: February 16, 2007, 05:40:33 PM »
has anyone ever dusted their crickets with cgd instead of calcium/vitamins?
would this be a good or bad idea?
thoughts please.

i read on another forum about someone using this method to get geckos who were only eating crickets and not cgd to acquire a taste for it.? mine all eat the cgd but i was just wondering about the nutritional balance of this method.
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 08:49:56 PM »
i dont know i havent heard of anyone doign it...
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2007, 09:25:46 PM »
Me either...
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2007, 11:08:30 PM »
i imagine that could work for a short time, to aquire a taste like you said. if you intend to feed crickets along with CGD i would stick with CGD mix and dusted calcium on the crickets because CGD is intended to be a whole food. a vita-mineral mix or cal mix is going to be (or should be) more concentrated then CGD. even better would be to gut-load the crickets with CGD or calcium a couple hours before feeding your geckos. either way, when feeding crickets, something on top or inside, is better then nothing. my two cents.
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2007, 11:42:14 AM »
I have also heard of people doing it for finicky eaters. While CGD has the nutrients in it that a gecko needs I don't think that it's enough to be a supplement. When you dust with calcium there's a lot of just calcium. When you use CGD they're only getting small amounts of alot of all the nutrients. While it's not a bad thing it'd be more to give the gecko a taste of CGD than as a supplement.
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2007, 04:18:55 PM »
when i first got into cresteds and still feed crickets i used to put CGD and calcium in my cricket duster. i mixed them together and i never had a negative reaction to it.
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2007, 07:49:38 PM »
thanks for the discussion!
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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2007, 05:46:45 PM »
Before I could get my first geckos to eat the CGD I used to gutload the crickets with CGD lol. They went crazy over it. (The Crickets)
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2007, 06:17:57 PM »
i dusted with cgd and calcium, now i dust with the leopard gecko icb powder
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2007, 07:54:46 PM »
Gut loading the crickets with it sounds like a good idea...
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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2007, 08:38:11 PM »
I dont know if it's linked to the cgd but i had more than half a box of 1000 crickets die, i fed them cgd.  i got two feedings out of the box Sad
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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2007, 12:19:46 PM »
Wow... That sucks.  I used to get big boxes of crickets from wormmans wormfarms... Every single time they sent them, they would only send half of what I paid for.  I'd get 1000 they would send 500.  I would complain, they would send me a box of 500, there would be 250.. And it kept going on until they just gave me the rest of my money back and I was done.
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2007, 04:31:21 PM »
these came from the show.  i havent had a problem before.  i use to mix some cgd in with the flukers cricket diet  but i offered plain dry cgd and the next day most were dead Undecided
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2007, 04:48:48 PM »
yeah! the same thig happened to us.... We put a bunch of crickets with some cgd and a few hours later most were dead... maybe they couldnt beath Huh
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2007, 05:45:52 PM »
maybe it had something to do with it being dry?  have you tried gutloading with mixed wet cgd?
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« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2007, 06:13:27 PM »
they drown in it when it's wet
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« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2007, 06:18:05 PM »
even if it's in a thin layer?
shows how much i know about feeding crickets ha!  i won't keep the nasty critters.
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« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2007, 06:19:25 PM »
when i feed cgd & crickets at the same time they get stuck in the cgd and are dead the next day  but the roaches are fine eating dry or wet Undecided
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