What to Feed Crickets?

[lta3398]

I have quite a few hamsters, gerbils, mice, and rats as pets in addition to my Ts...so I am forever buying fresh carrots, apples, and the like to feed them. I also have cats. So I feed the crix fresh veggies, cat food just to have in there as a back-up, and potato slices. This seems to work well, and since I have to cut up all these items for my rodent pets, anyway, it is not a time-consuming thing for me to do it for the crix also!

 

[JaxsWastedLife]

What i decided

Thanks for all your input guys/gals you have all been really helpful.
I think i'm going to go with a mixture of color enchancing tropical fish flakes, oats, dogfood mixture. I'll crush it all up and leave it in a bottle cap in the cage for the cricks. Yummy Yummy. I wonder if the color enhancement will work on the blue of my H. Lividum?

 

[Garbonzo13]

I am starting a cricket breeding culture and am using dry milk, and cornmeal (50/50) mix, then for extra water I throw in a few carrot pieces seperatly as not to wet the dry mix. I use water pillows for their water. So far so good. No dog food, I may want to eat my crix myself, you never know. :}

 

[DracosBana]

Pfff... sorry to hear. Has your better half had a good sniff off of the good old cricket box? Maybe you get what you want after that...

Actually, it's my parents. And no, as they are never in my room anyway.

 

[Thoth]

I lock my crickets in a box and let them fight it out. The survivng cricket havng eaten the competition then has the nutrient of a dozen crickets packed into one. This super cricket then is fed to my ts. (just kidding in case you thought I was serious.) Thought if you do not have adequate food and water they will cannibalize each other.

There is no real need for "color enhancing" fish flakes over the regular fish flakes. The colors of most (if not all) ts is not from pigments but the diffraction of light by the exo skeleton; as others have posted else where. Blue jays and other birds are examples of this, where their color is caused by the diffraction of light by their feathers.

 

[joe8421]

me
always one thing ,when i eat eggs ,i don't take all ,i left some in the shell ,and feed my crickets , cuz "what we feed the crickets is what our Ts eat",i won't let my Ts eat Vegetables or fruits

 

[Pennywise]

another vote for?

Fluker's Orange Cubes. Expensive but they work great and your cricket
bucket doesn't smell like garbage after 2 days.

 

[DanCameron]

Wow. I did not know you could feed crickets dog food. That thought never crossed my mind. Of course, I don't feed or keep crickets. I go to a store twice a week and pick them up. They are already loaded. The people there feed them orange and carrot slices. This makes them very nutritious for the Ts. If I were to keep crickets, however, I would probably use this very same method of slicing up oranges and carrots. I choose not to keep crickets because the chirping noises annoy me.

 

[Windchaser]

I'd love to have a roach colony, unfortunately that's been vetoed. I think it was the word roach that caused the problems.

Yes, I am in a similar situation. However, in my case it is my better half that has vetoed them.