[tucker]

i was wondering what everyone feeds there crickets. i always try that flukers gell stuff but i never see my crickets on it. only thing they seem to eat is potatos chopped up. i buy a box of a thousand every week 10 bucks cant beat it. but i need to figure out a good gut load

[postskunk]

I throw dog food in there for them someone told me that will give them extra protein but I dust them too so I'm not sure if the dog foods doing anything but it makes sense.

[aquapimp]

I use my own "top secret blend" .... Very expensive to make (exotic, organic ingredients). However, if every female squuezes out healthy clutches, the expense quickly pays for itself. Google some "gut-loading recipes" I'm sure you'll come up with some good ideas. Most of the commercially available stuff is not that great IMHO.

[D.B.Johnson]

+1 for dry dog food, carrots for moisture.

[Viridovipera]

I use kittenfood with carrots or other moist fruits/veggies on the side

[Eric Walker]

I also use cat food. and some leaf lettice for hydration.

tucker- where are u getting crickets for 10$ a 1000?

[CapCitySteve]

Ok I use a combination of things as follows and my crickets thrive as well as my geckos.
chicken meal. You can buy a 50 lb bag for 5 bucks at a feed store and it's the same thing as the flukers dry cricket diet just make sure its the unmedicated kind, other options are the egg layers meal which is higher in calcium or the normal. The crickets also really like gold fish flakes, dog or cat food as mentioned above. And I give them sliced oranges and apples and corrots and romaine lettuce. They always have a dish of water gel as well. They do great on a mixture of this but they really really like the chicken feed.

[tucker]

local pet store. i get a box of a thousand quarter inch size crickets and 5 to 6 dozen feeder fish for like 15-16 bucks. ive bin doing this everyweek for like 13 years or so. not always crickets i use to get alot of mice and rats.

[Robbe]

Hi Tucker

A recipe that can be used for all feeder insects, as a nice gut load is like following:

Apple pure
oatmeal
flower pollen
cornflour
millet-flakes
whole grain flour
powe food for birds with fruit and vitamins

mix it up in a bowl, to it gets a nice consistense and feed, you can make big portions and keep in the freezer to later use.

hope it helps.

if you dont want to make something like that for the feeder insects, then doggfood(the dry stuff), and some veggies once ina while to give em some moist(to drink) then their fine.

[Eric Walker]

tucker- even my local reptile speciality store doesnt sell them that cheep.
I order mine from bug co and that are still $15 for a 1000. and this week because of the cold half arrived dead. Need to find something that cheep that I can go and pick up.