04-11-2010, 01:30 PM | #1 |
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'Bran' substrate for livefoods
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Can someone tell me how/what/where to buy this 'bran' that is use as a substrate for livefoods. Thanks |
04-11-2010, 01:38 PM | #2 |
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Health food shop should sell it.
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04-11-2010, 01:41 PM | #3 |
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cool thanks. and its just called 'Bran' or Bran flakes or something like that?
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04-11-2010, 01:55 PM | #4 |
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Just classed as bran
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04-11-2010, 03:02 PM | #5 |
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Our local reptile rooms sell it, may be worth trying your local.
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04-11-2010, 03:13 PM | #6 |
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Go to the supermarket and buy cheap porridge oats and cheap weetabix and scrunch them up and mix it together...sssoooooo much cheaper and they love it... I mix nutrobal in to it so they are nice and healthy to feed to my lot
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04-11-2010, 03:15 PM | #7 |
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Ahhh, great idea
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04-11-2010, 03:30 PM | #8 |
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Saves us an absolute fortune...we have dustbins full of meal worms, morio worms and wax worms breeding so it would cost hundreds to use shop bought stuff
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04-11-2010, 03:33 PM | #9 |
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Bran is like 80P a Kilo, porridge and weetabix must cost more than that.
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04-11-2010, 03:41 PM | #10 |
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