Healthiest foods

[JayC74]

I use to gut load crickets for my reptiles, but I didn't get the sense that the OP was gut loading them. But why go through the effort of gut loading when you can just give high quality pellets imho

I go through the effort because it has worked for me for 2decades of raising aros along with superworms and the dreaded thawed MP. When I kept crickets alive and dealt with that mess..that was effort. But 1k count boxes of crickets and gutloading them with minced baby spinach n baby carrot while they're still in the box (unopened) isn't much effort at all. Throw the box in the freezer for 30min, bag them up..easy peezy..not too far from the ease of pellets and plenty healthy too

 

[JayC74]

+1 my Aro doesn't even like crickets. He would bite them and spit them out. I think Crickets should be used sparingly.


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Your aro doesn't like crickets. Never heard of an aro not looking at a cricket like I personally look at a fried clam. There might be something wrong with your aro

 

[Vanimal]

Your aro doesn't like crickets. Never heard of an aro not looking at a cricket like I personally look at a fried clam. There might be something wrong with your aro

He only likes soft foods. He will take pellets but they're hard so he spits them out. Currently I just stick to flakes and Tilapia. Maybe he will eat pellets once he is older.


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[xraycer]

I use to gut load crickets for my reptiles, but I didn't get the sense that the OP was gut loading them. But why go through the effort of gut loading when you can just give high quality pellets imho

I go through the effort because it has worked for me for 2decades of raising aros along with superworms and the dreaded thawed MP. When I kept crickets alive and dealt with that mess..that was effort. But 1k count boxes of crickets and gutloading them with minced baby spinach n baby carrot while they're still in the box (unopened) isn't much effort at all. Throw the box in the freezer for 30min, bag them up..easy peezy..not too far from the ease of pellets and plenty healthy too

Too much effort for me, but to each his own.

 

[AshKetchum]

New life spectrum, omega one, hikari cichlid bio gold


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[JayC74]

Too much effort for me, but to each his own.

To each his own is right. What has been your feeding routine for your aros? How old and how big did they get on the foods they were eating

 

[whitepearl]

Good quality pellet, chopped fish talapia, smelt etc are good suggestions. I also am a big fan of insect feeders , Meal worms and super worms, ideally gutloaded with fresh veggies. IMO a varied diet always yields the best results.

Avoid too much frozen shrimp or cooked shrimp, cooked shrimp has poor nutritional value compared to raw, but once frozen raw shrimp is very high in thiamese which leads to calcium deficiencies. Also avoid mammalian meats like beef heart, arowanas cannot break down the fats which then build up on the liver.

Hope that helps.

DC when you say shrimp is that the same as krill?