Favorite feed

[Jace]

Depends on the pet, I am afraid. My African Bullfrogs are too big to be sustained on crickets alone anymore. In one sitting, they happily eat 3-4 large earthworms, 2 superworms, half a dozen crickets...I guess I deal with crickets more because of my Fire-bellied toads and geckos, but I have so many MIA's right now, my cats have been kept busy for hours at night. I like worms/mealworms; it would be a toss up between crickets and mealworms/superworms for the croakers and gecks.

[Kevin1]

My favorite to use are dubia roaches.
They also come in a variety of sizes.
All of my pets love them.
They are nutritious.
Easy to breed/keep.
Don't smell.
pretty quiet.
Easy to handle.
All in all a pretty good staple.

[SirIvy]

I primarily use canned crickets for gray tree frogs, spring peeper, and american toad. (It took awhile to trick the toad into thinking they were alive.) I also feed them some canned mealworms, canned caterpillars, and any live moths I am able to catch. I have live springtails and sowbugs in the tanks as well.

Canned crickets make up the majority of the diet though.

[Kurt]

Wow, I didn't think anybody actually bought those.

[SirIvy]

Canned food? I usually caught and raised my own food.

This summer I raised all of the above mentioned animals from tadpoles. (I somehow got a peeper tadpole while scooping my bucket back in the flooded woods behind my house collecting water. I heard a bunch of them calling but never say any.)

I started out with live food and then switched to canned once they all became used to hand feeding. It's real easy to get a variety of food this way and its easier to dust the food with calcium.

For the toad I just put him in a plastic container and drop food in front of him. He'll look at it for a second then snatch it up.

[coltiger]

I chose other

I usually feed hornworms, silkworms and waxworms. I sometimes get butterworms. I am not into crickets as much.

[SludgeMunkey]

Lobster Roaches: Nauphoeta cinerea

Advantages:

Quiet.
Odorless.
Fat Breeders.
Have trouble surviving if the escape in temperate climates.
Easy to feed.
High Nutritional value.
Do well on Dry Cat food/Dog food and once a week salad greens.
Cricket crystals provide water easily.
Sizes comparable to crickets.

Disadvantages:

Takes a few months to get good producing cultures going, but still faster than crickets.

They can climb anything, so a barrier substance like Vaseline or an off the shelf product is necessary.

If you live in a subtropical climate, do not use these.