Cricket Size question

[CorgiNole]

Okay - this may be a silly question but here goes.

When choosing the appropriate size of the feeder - that should be smaller than the distance between their eyes - are we looking at the length or width of the feeder?

The crickets I have right now are about a quarter inch long (Petsmart Small size for this week...) - and the girls are not interested in them. But they meet the between the eyes criteria. However, I read about people feeding superworms - which the ones I've seen have been two to three inches long.

So I wonder if I'm over thinking the cricket size and could go up a size to longer crickets - as long as they aren't too wide.

The tiny crickets are currently living high on the hog in an old vivarium, eating greens, so that once they get a little bigger, I can try feeding them again.

Cheers, K

 

[Siobhan]

I got small crickets for Rex and he totally ignored them. I got him big ones, and he finally ate a couple of them. I thought the big ones were too big, but clearly he did not agree. And he LOVES super worms, which also look too big for him but, again, he does not think so. Get just a few and see what happens and if they like them, you can get more. If they don't, you won't have a bunch of new pets on your hands.

 

[CorgiNole]

I've ordered Phoenix worms to try next. She ate two of the tiny crickets off tongs this morning - a mighty hunter she is not.

I'm not going the route of superworms as I understand that they are less nutritious than meal worms or crickets - and they are huge. Plus I'm already dealing with an eye infection that may go back to her being kicked in they eye by her food - or it may be a stuck shed issue (ultimately cause isn't important - we are on our third bottle of prescription eye drops now). So I don't want to take a chance of something else kicking her in the eye.

Cheers, K