don't take any offense to this but..
"In your opinion, is adding crickets nessecary when you are using Clarks Gecko Diet? "
maybe you should read the label.
here are a few captions from the label i found
"It takes advantage of the attraction to fruit to provide a completely balanced diet"
"this is the highest quality most nutritious diet available for your frugivorous geckos"
"Comprised of 56% fruit, 20% protein, and containing every vitamin, mineral, trace element and amino acid in the perfect proportions and consistency"
"Our Rhacodactylus geckos have been raised for multiple generations exclusively on this diet"
according to those four statements found on the label, no additional insects should be required seeing as the diet is "completely balanced, highest quality, most nutritious, has everything in the perfect proportions, and other have raised theirs EXCLUSIVELY" on this diet.
however if you read on you'll find this
"if we didn't believe in it, we wouldn't sell it" We recommend using this diet along with gut loaded vitamin - mineral dusted insects which will add fat and extra Calcium & Vit D3 needed for your geckos. Doing this every other feeding will give your geckos an absolute complete diet.
so basically it's a complete diet, but to make it an ABSOLUTE complete diet you need gut loaded calcium/mineral enriched insects.

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