So far I have tried crickets, dubia (which I breed), and nightcrawlers. He will eat the night crawlers with some coaxing, but I ran out of those late in October and honestly I have been strapped for cash so could not get more. If I put the dubia in they will burrow and he won`t be able to eat them so I usually put them on the tongs and then near his face and sometimes he eats sometimes he doesn`t. The crickets seem to be a bit too jumpy for him, he is kind of lazy. He doesn`t have a hide, but he does have plants. He prefers to burrow out in the open it seems. I am just so afraid of him starving to death. I don`t know how often I should attempt feeding him or anything. All of my reptiles and tarantulas and my VERY spoiled beta fish are doing wonderfully, he is just not and it makes me really sad.