What Do You Feed Your Crickets?

[AKFROG]

I feed them romaine lettuce, apples, carrots, sweet potato and Gut Load Cricket & Insect Food. Been feeding them these items since I got FROG in December of 2014.

[ColleenT]

bug burger, fish flakes, misc.. i don't feed a lot of fresh stuff bc it goes bad so fast.

[privet01]

Lettuce scraps of any sort, mostly romaine. Spinach and other greens. (I have a garden so there's always something to spare) The peelings of oranges and grapefruit that have some flesh left on them. The seeds and stuff you scrape out of a winter squash such as butternut or acorn. Carrots pieces, mushrooms, celery, most any vegetable or fruit scrap, though sometimes they don't care for fruits when other stuff is available. And they go crazy for the Rep-Cal iguana or gecko food and I've also fed them dry dog or cat food. The Rep-Cal is expensive for daily feeding, but I keep it on hand for times when the other stuff is sparse or when I'm going to be gone awhile.

I breed my own, so I've seen some broods that shun some food that other broods seem to love. I generally feed them daily and remove the old leftovers before adding the new so rot and such is no issue. However when there are 500 plus crickets in the container, they don't leave much.

[irThumper]

I have had issues with mold here so I also feed a dry mix to my crickets. I combine Flukers high calcium dry cricket chow, crushed original Cheerios, fish conditioning/vegetable flakes (no artificial color), and Reptaboost all together and give them that. I give water in a dish of cotton balls dampened with spring water. I have also added Repashy's all in one to the cricket's food before. Wanting to try adding Bug Burger and/or Pac Man food to the cricket diet as well.

[privet01]

I guess this goes with the topic....sort of. But if you feed your crickets mostly fresh spinach for a day or so, their poo will be green. Almost a bright emerald green.

[teslas intern]

I don't have crickets yet, but I have roaches! So for a staple they get oatmeal (which is less than ideal because phytates, but several generations later, as long as you mix things up you won't have birth defects. I fed pure oatmeal in the winter and got bad molts and deformed roaches, don't do it). I supplement with the leftovers from when my dad makes juice, so an assortment of fruit and vegetable pulp. I also give the rindes of whatever fruit I'm eating, so watermelon, apple cores, etc. Lately I've been feeding dried then frozen Hornwort from my goldfish pond, and I've never seen healthier roaches!!! They can't get enough of it, but oddly enough the algae that clings it they won't touch, and I have to pick it out. I also freeze pumpkin gook in the fall and give that once in a while. And lastly I'm experimenting with prickly pear cactus... Haven't tried it yet, but I've got several started and hoping they grow so I can feed them to bugs!

[Larry Wardog]

I feed my crickets bananas, strawberries when I don't feed bananas, apples from our apple tree outside, I use Cheerios which they carry all around the bin, last but not least, I don't think anyone does this but me, Mallet Spray for birds. I use a clean one, not from my parents birds. They swarm it, they love it also. It goes faster imo then the others I have mentioned. The crickets have been breeding in my 75 Gallon and the baby's have been close to the mallet spray. It's good nutrition for birds and crickets haha


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[privet01]

What do you use the insecticide for? Are you killing the crickets before feeding them to your frog? My fbt's won't eat anything dead. Or since you raise your own, are you just using that for the inevitable "Cricket Genocide" that has to occur when they get too big for your frogs and other reptiles?

[MantidBro]

I feed mine cricket drymix sometimes but mostly i feed them lettuce. Cucumber, carrot, spinach, celery. Sometimes mushroom, apple, banana.

[irThumper]

What do you use the insecticide for? Are you killing the crickets before feeding them to your frog? My fbt's won't eat anything dead. Or since you raise your own, are you just using that for the inevitable "Cricket Genocide" that has to occur when they get too big for your frogs and other reptiles?

He means "Millet", those seed things they hang in cages for parakeets, etc. If crickets go for that I think I'll try it on them as well. I'm always looking for more ways to bump up my cricket diet so they are healthier for my frogs

[Larry Wardog]

Yes, thank you, as soon as I put it in for the crickets, they swarm it. Get some and watch, it's very interesting to say the least.


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