Hi, I am in charge of feeding the crickets in this house......I have really got into it, and want to feed them the best way. What do you think about feeding them fish food? I give them bug gel as well. I find bug grub dries out too quickly. Wotchafink? Piles of smiles, Dobby.

i had always fed mine a high quality tropical fish food along with dark greens such as kale. i always watered mine via a water bowl. i never had any problems.... my stuff thrived. you are what you eat!

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ye fish food is awesum aqua crystals are awsum too!

piles of smiles from miles with piles ahhhhhhhhh

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bee pollen is great,full of lots of goodness and crckets demolish the stuff,also the commercial tubsof criket food u buy,and any kinds of veg,say your cooking a meal one day keep the peelings of the potatos,carrots ect.

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1.0.0 Yemen Chameleon-(Chamaeleo Calyptratus) Marley

I vary mine, but they seem to die quite quickly and they're remarkably thick, willingly drowning themselves in the shallowest of drinking bowls.

Mind have orange, lettuce, tropical fish flakes, sliced apple... all sorts really. I'm a veggie so there's always bits of fruit'n'veg knocking around.

No hope breeding them yet though which is narking me off!

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How about placing some sponge in the dish and keeping it damp

I feed mine all veg apart from spinach and brocolli the only fruit they get is a bit of apple. Theres also the odd bit of tropical fish food dropped in there.

Wet cotton woll for drinking.

A good way of making sure they don't drown is a method I read about in a 'Breeding Feeders' section of one of my books

Get a test tube (size doesn't has to be big but the smaller it is, the more often it needs re-filled) with a piece of sponge, cotton-wool or similar stuck in the end.

This allows them to suck moisture from the sponge without ending up floating upside down in a dish of water lol

We've not long started using this method in a cricket box and it seems to be working out ok?

They get pieces of carrot scrapings (not too much tho), bits of apple ,etc...I've even fed them prawn crackers lol

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3.6.0 leos

Make sure they are not living in too moisture...something we've found out the hard way!
Most of my peelings go into the 'creatures food chain'-including any fruit my four year old doesn't finish. The best way I have found with few deaths to provide water is to cut an orange segment and chuck it in...they go nuts for it. Carrots are preferred by mealies i have found, but as someone said any dark greens go down a treat. If you quickly rinse them under the tap and shake off excess thats another way to give moisture and they don't drown!

I use bran, weetabix as substrate and add some calcium powder and a pinch of tropical fish flake. But make sure you remove any left over food next day or it stinks and they tend to die off. Better to feed a little each day IMO. HTH

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i feed mine a dry mix or crushed cat and dog food dry stuff,tropical fish flaks weetabix and dry milk powder

i add nutrobal to the mix a day or so to the ones i take for gut loading

fresh greens daily but not the pre-chopped stuff that stinks buy the next day i use full leafs like spring cabbage

and water gel