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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.
We rotate three primary feeders. Banded crickets carry the daily volume. Dubia roaches carry the protein and remain the only feeder that consistently survives a 72-hour gutload. Black soldier fly larvae carry calcium and rotate in twice a week as a treat-rich training feeder.
When one feeder source goes offline (cricket die-off in shipping, dubia colony slump), the other two carry the schedule. A keeper running only crickets has a single point of failure that crashes their whole husbandry plan in one week.
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.
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.