Is mould in feeders dangerous to geckos?

[Romy]

So i let someone look after my reptiles while I was on holiday. I also left them my cricket box too, which is a large tub. I usually keep a cap of dry food in there and sometimes give them some fruit and they keep well and clean.

My dear friend decided to 'do me a favour'. She put a thick layer of oatmeal and hay the bottom of the tub and put a load of wet fruit in there.
Of course when i get it back, the bottom is completely covered in a blue-green fuzzy mould. I have a tonne of crickets in there, living on the mould. It's been like that for at least a week

Should I just chuck them all out?
It would be a waste of money but i don't want my animals getting sick :/

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Mold is a problem.

Thoroughly clean the enclosure. Kill those crickets who've consumed moldy food. There's nothing gained by feeding moldy crickets to geckos.

Leaving a little dry cricket diet on the floor of the enclosure in addition to food in a lid is alright. I suggest some food like ProGutoad dry insect diet instead of oatmeal. Oatmeal is relatively high in phosphorus. Crickets don't need that.