How does gut loading your crickets help a baby veiled chameleons nutrition in take for its body?
Crickets are relatively non-nutritious when unfed, they often come near starved in those eggcrate boxes. Gut loading is feeding them a supplemented material, that will put a little more protein on your cricket, as well as enriching it with vitamins from the food still in its gut. Even when fed crickets alone can cause calcium deficiency if you’re not supplementing your chameleon with something else, this is one method to supply it. Usually it’s only necessary if you rely on buying your crickets regularly though, as otherwise you could have a regular food source for them and they wouldn’t be undernourished and would have a regular caloric value.
