Our Insect Foods and Custodian Foods are an all natural high quality source of nutrition for your feeder insects and Bio Active clean up crew.
In bioactive systems, custodians are used to clean up the waste from the enclosure. Custodians such as springtails and other isopods and roaches help to break down any organic matter and can survive on this as a food source alone, but in order to make sure that they thrive and do their job better, it is important to feed them. By feeding your custodians you encourage them to multiply and to become a source of positive nutrition themselves.
Feeding your reptile a nutritious diet is more complicated than offering the right species of insects. Insects that have been fed low quality diets or that have empty guts represent poor nutritional value for your reptile.
To remedy this you should ‘gut load’ your feeder insects so they provide optimum nutrition when consumed.
Gut loading simply means feeding the insects nutritious foods so that the nutrition is then passed on to your reptile. This is a proven successful method for increasing the nutritional value of feeder insects.
