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Subject: Re: Cricket Curious!
Posted by AmyMichelle on February 25, 2000 at 10:35:51 from 139.102.76.22
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愀 Diet page (its in the link list of sugarglider.com). There you惻l find many different PROVEN diets that include the feeding of insects. Please keep in mind that crickets, although necessary in a glider愀 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!