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Proper gut-loading of prey is essential for a healthy herp. Feeding your herp a proper diet can help assure a healthy long lived animal. A healthy herp is less likely to develop problems such as infections, parasites, vitamin deficiencies, and other health related problem.

INGREDIENTS

1 bag Dry milk
1 cup Sunflower seeds
1 box Rice baby cereal
1/3 cup Spirulina
3/4 cup Raw bee pollen
1 cup Wheat germ
1 cup Alfalfa leaf tablets
1/2 cup Dried sea kelp
1 Dried egg yolk
1/2 cup Dried high protein kitty chow or monkey chow

DIRECTIONS

Entire mixture should be ground up to a powder in a food processor, individually and remixed or all together at the same time.

Store in a sealed container in the fridge.

FRESH FOODS

Prickly pears
Citrus fruits
Mustard greens
Dandelion greens
Collard greens
Carrots
Squashes

Place fresh foods in disposable cups in cricket bins and alternate food types from carrots to greens to squashes etc...to vary the vitamins the reptiles are absorbing from the insects.

This works for mealworms as well as crickets. Just put the mealworms in a feeding container with the wet and dry food the night before you are going to feed them so they gut-load themselves.

These fresh foods add a source of moisture for the feeder insects as well.

This recipe is courtesy of Chris & Lisa of Ottawa and a special thanks to Candy of Reptile Rescue for providing this recipe.