Your favorite cricket feed?

[tomatogirl]

What's your favorite cricket feed? What seems to keep them alive and healthy and also benefits your herp? Just so you know, I dust them with vitamins and feed them the calcium cricket jello for all that stuff, but what's your favorite thing to fill their bellies with?

[Superfly]

I keep mine fed on chick feed, then put them in a container with gutload for a day before giving them over to the frogs. It seems that the key to breeding them is keeping the temp pretty warm, like ~80 degrees.

[Rainfrog]

Ya crickets need the warmth. I keep mine were the light from my python tank hits the side of it during the day. I Feed the corn based cricket food and mix some reptocal and a small amount of herpavite in with it. I also give the occasional orange cube (they dont seem to care alot for them) and keep a constant supply of "Glub" for thier moisture they are all by the same company cant think of the name right now. they love the corn based stuff though.

[Pavel]

Crickets stink so I only keep them for a short time -- about week. I feed mine fish flake food

[Rainfrog]

Flukkers, thats the name I was trying to remember. dont see how I could forget they make so much stuff.

[tomatogirl]

Thanks for all your help. Like Pavel, I don't keep them longer than a week or so. To feed one little frog, breeding would seem silly (plus I think my human might revolt if I started a cricket farm in our little apartment). I have started using the Flukers cricket feed with a smidge of repvite mixed in, and the crix seem to be more active and living longer. I also feed them that calcium jello stuff, and they eat it up. Their appetites are impressive!

[Rainfrog]

Crickets are very thirsty critters! the cool thing about the glub is when it dries out (it will look gone or like grose stuff in the dish) you can add a little water and let it sit afew then it will plump back up and hold the new water.

[Pappy65]

Hey there.. Is feeding your crickets apples,carrots, and or lettuce and such be good too, or dose it need to be the above items mentioned ?

[tikichick]

It's good to feed crickets fresh veggies as well as the dry cricket chow.

I use the water pillows or the gels, placed in a very shallow rock dish. The dry food is in one little bowl, and I use a wider shallow dish for greens and fruits. I usually give them the stalks and some leaves of what ever green I'm feeding my iguanas that day (collard, mustard, etc).

About once a week, I add some bearded dragon dust (vitamin supplement) to their chow.

Here's a good guide: Breeding and Raising the House Cricket

I house my large ones in a deep rubbermaid tub with playsand in the bottom. Keeps them from stinking because it dries out any little cricket corpses. Then I just spot clean as needed.

I use the egg crate flats (that come with the crickets in the mail - I usually order 500 at a time) so they have plenty of places to hide. If they have nothing to climb on, they'll kill each other faster.

Good luck with your crickies!

[Ajax]

I use amphibian nutrition cricket moisture gutload with some Gerber Baby Carrots. To keep the red on my frogs belly they need beta carotine(sp?) which carrots have.