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    I was wondering if there is something that I can feed or dust crickets with to get rid of any parasites that can harm my geckos and frogs my first leopard gecko died because of crickets I bought having parasites almost all my frogs and geckos are irritating me a little because they all HATE any worms meal wax butter you name them they won't touch them and my dubia colony can't be fed off as the numbers are dangerously low so is there anything that can make crickets safe to feed I'm out of options but I don't want to infect my collection with parasites from crickets bought from the store thanks - Firebelly man

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    If you are buying crickets from a store and they have parasites, then you should change stores or raise your own crickets. Might have been a one-time thing for that store though. Maybe a conversation with the store about it to see if they are aware of anything wrong with the crickets previously. But if the cricket bins stink to high heaven, I'd still be looking elsewhere.

    Anything you put on your crickets to kill parasites on them is going to be going into your geckos and frogs.

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    Ok just to be clear though don't all crickets sting I hate doing crickets and ordered some new roaches for feeding thanks for your response

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    The females have a spike that has been said to cause problems (though I've never had any) but they don't sting, but will bite/attempt to eat frogs if they are not fed beforehand (which they should be) and if the animal doesn't eat them straight away. Go to another shop, preferably somewhere that packs them fresh rather than keeping them in tubs for days with no food, where they die and then feed upon each other, then ofcourse get disease

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    Assuming that "sting" was meant to be "stink", then no not all cricket bins stink. If they are provided good ventilation by keeping the air moving, then the bins will stay dry and not stink. Roaches are the rage for many nowadays, so if your geckos and frogs can handle them then they are probably just as good as crickets. But I'd much rather find a cricket loose in my house than a roach. And just as likely, if the store keeps their crickets in bad enough conditions to get parasites, then I'd think they keep their roaches in no better condition.

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    I get the roaches from a separate site (loll reptile ) no roaches at my store and yes sorry I meant stink stupid auto correct I just go to satandard petco as I've grown to hate most petsmarts I mean really how hard is it to cut up some carpet for geckos instead of stinking sand people if I worked ther (thank god I don't ) so many things would be different in the way the fish and reptiles are kept I went in a few days ago and noticed a dead crab I told the staff (a Russian girl who I bet dosent speak a lick of English and she said she would clean it ) a few days later I come in and the dead crabs are in the exacta me spot so sad

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