What do you feed your crickets?

[Jay_Bunny]

What do you feed your crickets and about how much does it cost you?

[Clementine_3]

I make my own cricket food/worm bedding. I use rolled oats, wheat germ, flax, baby rice cereal and a bit of dry milk. I crush/grind it for the crickets but leave it all chunky for the supers. They both get baby carrots for moisture.
It's pretty cheap to make really, and lasts a long time as long as it's kept dry.

[Theartisticgemini]

Potatoes, Bannanas, Apples....ETC

Try to stay away from the fruits with citrus such as Oranges.

[Jay_Bunny]

Thanks! I was thinking of trying my hand at cricket breeding again and wanted some ideas on food. That homemade cricket food seems easy enough and cheap. And those fresh foods are a good idea. Thanks guys!

[jfreels]

Any reason why crickets? I can't remember if you've posted about roaches before. (b. dubia specifically)

I use ProGeckos ProGutload for my worms and roaches and use to use it for the crickets. I buy the 10lb bag and it's $19 shipped. Lasts a long time, I'd have to check my records to see when I got my last one, but it's been months since I got a new bag.

I should try and make my own, I'm just lazy

[Sarin]

I only keep crickets around for 3 days at the most, but I feed them dry Crested gecko Diet.

[Jay_Bunny]

I would do roaches (whatever kind I could feed to my leopard gecko) but I don't have access to feeder roaches here. At least not in quantities to start my own feeder colony. And I do not have the means to purchase them online, at least not right now. Crickets are easily obtained and I did succeed once in breeding them (got hundreds if not thousands of babies, but humidity got the better of them and killed them off. (I didn't provide enough ventilation)

[jfreels]

Gotchia, OK. 3/4"-1" nymphs are good for leo's. Both of my breeders are right around 65 grams and they will eat a couple every day or so. Man, raising crickets seems like a lot of work for one gecko. Thinking about expanding your collection anytime soon??

[suzuki4life]

double post

[suzuki4life]

I am phasing out crickets in exchange for turk(red runner) roaches.

easier to produce, slightly less smell, longer life cycle.

downfall....I am confident they can infest your house. I only feed them to animals kept in glass aquariums.

Crickets, I use the shakings from dog food bags, mixed with fish flake which I run it through a blender to get a good mix.

water, dubias I use auto waters from ghanns and they work great.

turks i use carrots. I get 5lbs for $2 and local farm store.