Print the week's schedule below or save it to your phone's lock screen. Re-read it Wednesday at noon, when the week starts to drift.
The week's schedule. May 10 → 16.
Every Sunday issue lays out the full seven days at the bench: what gets fed, what gets dusted, what gets adjusted. Print this and put it on the fridge.
We publish the week's schedule every Sunday because the alternative is a keeper trying to remember on Wednesday whether Monday was a calcium day or a multivitamin day. Memory is the wrong place for husbandry. Paper or pixels — both fine. The point is the rotation lives outside your head.
What follows is the schedule we run on a juvenile panther in active grow-out, ages four to ten months. Adults shift to a three-day feed cadence and the supplement rotation thins out — we'll publish a separate adult sheet every other Sunday.
Read this once, then refer to the table all week. The notes column is the part most keepers miss; small environmental adjustments compound across seven days.
| Day | Feed |
|---|---|
Sunday May 10 | Banded crickets, 5 medium Calcium without D3 |
Monday May 11 | Banded crickets, 6 medium Calcium without D3 |
Tuesday May 12 | Dubia roaches, 4 medium Calcium without D3 |
Wednesday May 13 | Banded crickets, 6 medium Calcium with D3 |
Thursday May 14 | Black soldier fly larvae, 8 Calcium without D3 |
Friday May 15 | Dubia roaches, 4 medium Reptile multivitamin |
Saturday May 16 | Banded crickets, 6 medium Calcium without D3 |
DSQUARED Reptiles — Living Art. Curated Genetics.
From the field notes archive.
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.
Reading early gular edema before it becomes a vet visit.
Soft swelling under the throat can mean three different things. Two resolve at home. One needs an ARAV-listed reptile vet within the week.