Open your feeder bin. If you only stock one species, place an order for a second this week.
Three staple feeders, rotated. The case against monoculture.
Feeders carry different nutritional profiles. A diet built on one species is fragile — both nutritionally and supply-chain-wise.
Banded crickets carry volume and accept gutload well. Dubia roaches carry protein and tolerate longer offload windows. BSF larvae carry calcium naturally and rotate in twice weekly. The combination produces a more complete nutrient profile than any single species, and it protects against the inevitable supply disruption when a feeder source has a die-off or a shipping delay.
If you rely on a single feeder type, you have a single point of failure that crashes your care plan in one bad week. The cost of stocking three feeder species is marginal; the resilience benefit is significant.
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
The morning baseline photograph.
A single weekly photo, taken at the same hour and angle, will tell you more about your care than any forum thread ever could.
Tightening screen tension on a year-old cage.
After twelve months of misting cycles and live plant weight, screen panels sag in ways that quietly compromise climbing surfaces.
A 72-hour gutload window for dubia roaches.
Dubia gutloads peak somewhere between 48 and 72 hours after the colony moves onto a fresh diet. Here's the schedule we run.