You have a number of options. Many small frogs and salamanders do well on fruit flies, but fruit flies are not much improvement over crickets. Large terrestrial/ semi-aquatic amphibians such as tiger salamanders and the various big frogs do well on earthworms, waxworms, etc.; they can also be fed crickets, moths, and pinkies. I would not recommend mealworms as a staple diet for any amphibian. Some terrestrial amphibians can be trained to eat dead prey such as the 'bugs in a can' from ZooMed, especially if you use a vibrating dish.

But if you really want animals that need no live prey, you're going to have to concentrate on aquatics. Newts and clawed frogs will often take pellets. These, along with bigger aquatic sallies such as sirens and axolotls will also take frozen foods such as bloodworms, which are much less of a hassle than crickets. All of these aquatics will also take live feeders such as guppies, scuds, daphnia, small earthworms, etc., which are very easy to raise yourself and do not have the smell and pest potential of a cricket colony.

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