In Reply to: Re: Cricket Curious! posted by Denis on February 24, 2000 at 16:22:29:

: It depends on the overall diet you feed her. Maybe go to the Bourbon´s Diet page (its in the link list of sugarglider.com). There you´ll find many different PROVEN diets that include the feeding of insects. Please keep in mind that crickets, although necessary in a glider´s diet are high in phosphorous in relation to their calcium content and can therefore be VERY bad for your glider if given too much. Gliders are - at least as far as I know - genetically programmed to eat as much protein as they can get. Therefore they WILL fill up with probably too many crickets and the result is an unbalanced diet.
: Hope this helps you out a little bit.

Thanks!! (o= I'll make sure Aspen's cricket in-take is monitored then. That was very helpful. AmyMichelle, and Aspen!

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