Crickets As Food

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Hey All,

I have fed my Bluegill crickets and noticed he likes them. It is also good exercise as he darts back and forth smacking them from the surface of the water. Many years ago I had a LM Bass that also liked crickets. I do not feed crickets often but every once in a while as switch up to their diet.

Wondering if anyone here uses crickets for food and knows their nutritional value?
I used to feed toads, crickets that I would put white powder on to supposedly give them vitamins and extra nutrition. I believe this process is called gut loading, does anyone know if his would be a good thing to do to boost the immune system and vitamin intake for fish?

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I think that powdering process is known as "dusting" and gut loading is the practice of feeding the crickets some type of nutritious food in order to make them into a more beneficial meal.
I feed some of my fish crickets from time to time but a few of them always seem to escape and hide in my basement and the wife does not like their chirping lol.
 
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krichardson said:
I think that powdering process is known as "dusting" and gut loading is the practice of feeding the crickets some type of nutritious food in order to make them into a more beneficial meal.
I feed some of my fish crickets from time to time but a few of them always seem to escape and hide in my basement and the wife does not like their chirping lol.
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+1 lol
 
If you have a place to keep crickets like a unfinished basement you could gut load them like Krich stated. I used a five gallon bucket that had a hole drilled in the bottom. Used the smallest hole saw I have, reason for hole is ventilation . At the time was feeding African Butterfly fish , and a Silver Aro the crickets. :)
 
Joecatfish88 said:
Hey All,

I have fed my Bluegill crickets and noticed he likes them. It is also good exercise as he darts back and forth smacking them from the surface of the water. Many years ago I had a LM Bass that also liked crickets. I do not feed crickets often but every once in a while as switch up to their diet.

Wondering if anyone here uses crickets for food and knows their nutritional value?
I used to feed toads, crickets that I would put white powder on to supposedly give them vitamins and extra nutrition. I believe this process is called gut loading, does anyone know if his would be a good thing to do to boost the immune system and vitamin intake for fish?

-Thanks
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toads are poisonous, you MIGHT want to stop feeding your fish POISON.
 
Haha, I would never feed my fish Toads or Frogs. I kept Firebelly Toads for pets years ago. I fed the Toads the "dusted" crickets.
 
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I feed my bettas (wild types and designer) pin head crickets from time to time. Gutload them with pellets and shredded carrots before hand.
Use to feed my aros and oscars crickets as well.

Not sure on the nutritional value of crickets, but some fellow herp and arachnid hobbyist tell me that roaches are the way to go (dubia roach).
 
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Joecatfish88 said:
Haha, I would never feed my fish Toads or Frogs. I kept Firebelly Toads for pets years ago. I fed the Toads the "dusted" crickets.
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ahhh you messed me up w/ the comma when you said "i used to feed toads, crickets....."

It looked like you were listng different foods you feed them, toads being one of them. lol no comma needed
 
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