Gee such aggression over such a minor thing. Though I don't really understand why snake owners fed pre-killed rodents to their snakes...what's wrong with live rodents? I keep my own crickets to feed my bearded dragon, I don't breed crickets though as there isn't any point for one reptile. Crickets only make noise when adult and well, adult crickets are a little big for crested geckos in my understanding. The only smelly crickets I have encountered are the ones I get from the petstore...and that's probably because they don't keep their crickets very well. Once I get them home and move them into the container I have for crickets, they lose that stinky smell within a day.



My bearded dragon really gets excited when I come with wiggling jumping lively crickets and seems to enjoy chasing them. IN fact having him run a bit to catch his crickets is one way to stop him from gobbling them all up really fast..so fast that I worry he will choke on them. When he just has one to grab he tends to chew it a bit more.



Now that I bought some silkworms to try, I think I may stick to them, they are just so cool to watch and the food (the powered mulberry leaves) has such a nice smell when cooked, an almost minty leafy smell. THough these would be a bit too big to feed to a crested, except when really young.

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