Good for you! I have yet to see them eat crickets. (or eat from the food dish, but I think they are..I have crestie p00 so they are eating). They will do the food lick. Oddly enough Swami takes to being handled easier than Dreki, but she is more resistant to beng handled..she's probably still settleing in, and I wanted to check her out with a magifying glass..which she obliged by leaping on it and hanging on it for a while.