It would, along with your suggestion of younger dubias as the dubia hasn't had as much time to build up a UA storage.Seems to me feeding low protein would make dubias more a viable feeder
make sure to offer a wide variety of different feeder insects, alternating between high-protein feeders and lower-protein feeders.
I tried 4, 6 8 and 12% mixes over the course of like two years.@Claudiusx around what protein level did you settle on?
That is good to know. That seems to suggest that gutloading your roaches with a low protein diet for a couple days or even a week is not going to significantly diminish the UA they are carrying.After a few months, no new babies were even being produced.
I've had it up to here with trying to find random at home testing systems without being clobbered over the head at checkout...I wonder if there is some test or system that could be bought for home use(without being clobbered over the head at checkout)
This indicates there is a piece I'm missing as the research I'd done made me lean towards gout caused by an acute dosage of UA, overwhelming the Dragon's ability to deal with it.Dragons don't develop issues until a year or two down the line, if all things stayed consistent and the source of UA or too high of protein persisted.
Results
Bearded dragons of the treatment group had significantly higher plasma uric acid concentration at the 24-hour time point (mean ± SD, 6.5 ± 1.2 mg/dL), compared with the 0-hour time point within the same group (2.5 ± 1.5 mg/dL; P < 0.001) and with the control group (2.6 ± 1.2 mg/dL; P = 0.005) at the 24-hour time point (Figure 1). For the treatment group, plasma uric acid concentrations at the 4-hour and 48hour time points were not significantly different from the time 0 concentration. For the control group, no changes in plasma uric acid concentration were detected among time points.
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