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<blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 77915" data-attributes="member: 4199"><p>All animals need protein, all. There's a debate on how much, some say lots some say hardly any. Problem is digesting proteins creates uric acid, and that can be toxic if there's too much in the body.</p><p></p><p>However with lots of roaches, dubia included, they store this uric acid in their fat body to use as energy, a lot like us and our livers store reserve energy, and is then converted back into protein if our diets, or their diets, are lacking.</p><p></p><p>But our roaches aren't in the wild where their diet may lack protein now and then that would need higher protein to keep in reserves, so i agree with [USER=3019]@MatthewM1[/USER] Get rid of the high protein cat food, it could kill your roaches. If i recall correctly there was a study done that feeding the German roaches a 70% protein diet killed them in about 2 weeks. Dubia may react differently but i don't think it's worth the risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kormath, post: 77915, member: 4199"] All animals need protein, all. There's a debate on how much, some say lots some say hardly any. Problem is digesting proteins creates uric acid, and that can be toxic if there's too much in the body. However with lots of roaches, dubia included, they store this uric acid in their fat body to use as energy, a lot like us and our livers store reserve energy, and is then converted back into protein if our diets, or their diets, are lacking. But our roaches aren't in the wild where their diet may lack protein now and then that would need higher protein to keep in reserves, so i agree with [USER=3019]@MatthewM1[/USER] Get rid of the high protein cat food, it could kill your roaches. If i recall correctly there was a study done that feeding the German roaches a 70% protein diet killed them in about 2 weeks. Dubia may react differently but i don't think it's worth the risk. [/QUOTE]
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