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Jan 2, 2015

 live diet?

we have tree frogs and toads so we have crickets and mealworms on hand usually and have gotten into habit of feeding our glider(sophie) one or the other with her food. we've been wondering if we can just feed her a live diet instead of the bml we've been using. she has one of our closets converted to her cage/area and gets the run of our now glider-proof bedroom at night so exercise is not an issue. ps she's about 31 weeks old

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Jan 03 2015 : 02:38:19 AM
sjusovare
the problem being that worms are too fat to be the main source of proteins, and crickets can possibly carry aflatoxin if they've been raised on corn bedding. add to this that BML does not only bring proteins but also complex sugars and vitamins in a way which emulates (a bit) their habits to forage for sap and nectar, this would be really difficult to compensate with crickets and worm as their main protein source.

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