If you feed your adult daily, drop two days from the week starting Sunday. Reassess weight at week four.
Fasting protocols for adult panthers.
Adults benefit from a structured fast. Two days a week without feeders, hydration unchanged. Resets the gut and prevents the slow obesity creep most adults trend toward.
We feed adult males three days a week — Monday, Wednesday, Friday — with a structured rest Tuesday, Thursday, weekend. Females not in active breeding follow the same schedule. Females in a breeding cycle move to a different sheet entirely.
Two non-feeding days in a row never. The animal should never associate cage-entry with food deprivation; it should associate cage-entry with calm presence. Hydration runs unchanged on fast days.
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
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.
Why calcium without D3 carries the daily load.
Five days a week we dust with calcium-only. The D3 version comes Wednesday. The multivitamin comes Friday. Here is why the rotation is staggered.
Feeder rotation: crickets, roaches, BSF larvae.
A single-feeder diet is a nutritional gradient that flattens. Three rotated feeders give you slope and recoverability when one source goes offline.