Re: crickets as food source

["Bob Meyer" <bmeyer at parkland_cc.il.us>]

Some crickets crawled into my fish room last week.  I smooshed a couple of them and got ready to pour them into the tank.  Out of one of them came a parasitic worm that must have been 4 inches long.  Someone told me that it is a horsehair worm.  Supposedly not harmful to fish.  Anyway, I am steering clear of crickets as fish food.  Store bought ones are probably cleaner..bob

>>> relli at aye_net 10/13/00 02:14PM >>>
One of the best things you can feed your crickets is flake food! Use the highest
protein content you can get your hands on and this will "gut load" the crickets
allegedly passing on the nutrition to the fish. One caveat would be that they
are high in protein, but also have lots of chitin which I believe is not digestable
(sp?). I remember from my days with reptiles that there was concern about raising
chameleons on all cricket diets since they were judged to contain little digestible
material. I guess they would make good snacks.

Scott

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