Best place to get crickets?

[Lily00]

I bought a container of crickets Friday for my new fire bellies and of course they are already gone. We live 30 minutes from the closest pet store. Does anyone order them online? Any recommendations?

[AfricanBullFrog]

Josh's Frogs has crickets at a good price that's where I buy all my crickets. But really you should buy roaches, breed them and never buy feeders again.

[privet01]

Ordering online will quickly get expensive. There is little price difference between them. I've used flucker's and premium crickets. Both provided good healthy looking crickets, but I liked the shipping options better with fluker's.

If you only have a few mouths to feed then as weekly trip to the pet store will be way cheaper. I raise my own crickets and there is only a two week window out of the eight to ten week lifespan that they are feeder size for FBT's. Crickets are easy to raise, but if you don't have space in a garage or some sheltered area outside your house, then I don't recommend them. They can get smelly if they don't get enough ventilation. But if you have ten or so cats/dogs in your home you might not notice <<grin>>.

[AfricanBullFrog]

Yes you are going to want to buy bulk online. Fluckers and premium crickets are definitely not the best options to buy crickets I think privet did a google search and just listed what came up first lol. take the 30 min drive, buy bulk crickets, and set them up in a glass tank or tub no lid, feed them dog food, vegetables, fruits, keep a gatorade or water bottle cap as a water dish,Toilet and paper towel rolls to hide in, they should live for awhile. And keep a wood chip substrate, I've been using this setup for years and have had great success, plus it doesn't stink I keep them next to my bed. Roaches would be the premium way of keeping feeders. I hope this helped some.

[Lily00]

I kept 2 bearded dragons for a short time that I rescued and one of the reasons that I ended up finding them a new home was because I just couldn't do the roaches. I thought I could but it bothered me too much. I can do crickets and worms. I could probably feed roaches a few times by just dumping some in but there's no way I could raise them. I'm a wuss.

[AfricanBullFrog]

Ok, well do whatever makes you comfortable, if roaches creep you out then do crickets, if you can't handle the crickets just let the toads starve and find another hobby like sewing or jewelry.

[KMAC]

I kept 2 bearded dragons for a short time that I rescued and one of the reasons that I ended up finding them a new home was because I just couldn't do the roaches. I thought I could but it bothered me too much. I can do crickets and worms. I could probably feed roaches a few times by just dumping some in but there's no way I could raise them. I'm a wuss.

Hi Lily,

This thread mainly covers roaches for the squeamish but you could also use similar tools for crickets etc, will vastly reduce escapes.

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url...8&share_type=t
dubia roaches - fresh molt

[KMAC]

They make my life so much simpler

[KMAC]

I think everyone should group hug and be friends.

The thing with forums and because grammar is not used often people can 'read' things the wrong way and then you always get the 1 that tries to be better over the rest, thankfully I dont see that often here. We must remember this is an open forum and members are not just from the USA so practices and procedures can be different. As far as I am aware roaches do offer better nutrition if they are taken by the frogs. One I think they have a larger digestional tract holding more gut loaders and also they are of course more meatier than crickets.

The chances are in the USA they are illegal in certain states because they can become a best.

Here in the UK a dubia roach may live however it wont breed due to the climate, some parts of the USA this will be a different story though hence why they are illegal as they could become a invasive species not because they are bad for the frogs.

Practices and procedures change so to me if you know your right and someone questions you, reference your findings or let them find out for themselves. All in all we are all here to help each other and not to make others look daft or get 1 over them and sometimes that requires an open mind.

[KMAC]

The chances are in the USA they are illegal in certain states because they can become a best.

And when I said best I meant PEST lol on a xell phone here

[Lily00]

My crickets are eating very well! We bought a ton of baby food awhile back but the baby has decided he only wants "real" food. So now the crickets have shallow lids full of different fruit and veggie purees. Lol