Can Crickets Survive On Just Oranges?

[fish4all]

Egg layer mash, chicken scratch, chicken mash, or whatever they call chicken feed up there will work great and is really cheap. Add extra scraps form whatever you eat of fruits and veggies and you should be set. Water crystals also help to provide water if you don't feed anything moist.

[Cylifornia]

ok so just a recap: Chicken feed, carrot slices, apple slices and oranges will work? but not just one by itself. so like carrot slices and orange slices and they will get their water from the oranges as well?

[unkempt1]

Everyone is going to do something a little different, based on what's convenient.

I myself also have a bearded dragon, so I've put something together that's best for both of them. I have to stay away from dry stuff like dog food and chicken mash, but what I have read from a lot of experienced hobbyists is that's ok for a lot of frog species. Just not for dragons. So I use collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, and prickly pear (all of those are really cheap and easy to get down here in Texas at most grocers). I very rarely include mangos, apples, bell peppers, and sometimes carrots. These are all things that my wife and I eat regularly, so I pass on the scraps to them. The crickets tear them apart!

edit: to answer your question, yes, all of those items will give them hydration. I also include a Flukers orange cube since I work long hours some days, and that makes sure they always have something to drink since they usually go for it last.

[demon amphibians]

If you have a large amount maybe 500 and up you may want to consider water crystals. The ones where you have to add water yourself. It would save you money in the long run. And is insures that your crickets will always have moisture. Either way all the advice given is excellent.

[unkempt1]

Great point! I should add I only use the more expensive orange cubes because I already had them. Bought them in my newbie days as a cricket and roach rancher so I'm just trying to use them up.

Water crystals are twelve dollars and change for pretty much a lifetime supply at Lowes. Just make sure you get the ones that don't contain fertilizers or pesticides.