Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts. Sign up today!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 140298" data-attributes="member: 27883">I find it simplest, easiest and best to use some premium dog or cat kibble and a wide variety of veggies for feeding/gut-loading my roach colonies. I've tired all sorts of those commercial pet products for insect feeding and gut-loading and never found any advantage to them over regular food. They are expensive and the lists of chemicals and ingredients in them is cause for concern.Those companies want to make money, but there is no sense in reinventing the wheel. Why not use real food? Carrots, potato, oranges, bananas, apple, yams, green beans, kale, pumpkin, and whatever other leftovers we have. I've done it this way for many years and never had any problems. During the times I used these prepared insect products, I saw no difference in the insects or the animals I fed them to. I did have problems with some of the food cubes and water gels becoming fouled in the bottoms of insect tubs. Never have that problem with kibble and veggies.</blockquote>