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I saw a post where someone asked where to get crickets, and three people said not to go through Flukers. I was just wondering why. I don't have a beardie yet, bit I have six leopard geckos. I just ordered 250 crickets from Flukers, and I don't want to give my babies anything that will hurt them. Please help with any info you have. Thanks.

don't worry i buy crickets from them all the time.there crickets are very healthy and they give you a honest count.you will no this after you open the box.be careful they do pack alot of crickets in there boxes.i find only one fault in them there price ia a little more but there crickets are good

People that have been around lizards for several years have seen some rather "poor" things come out of this company, several years ago it was diseased iguanas. Just last year it was very sick and dying bearded dragons.

they launched a website called reptile republic and as a promo where giving away bearded dragons daily to get user, they spammed all the other forums and list and got peoples Emails and spammed them to death, then they topped it off by sending out diseased bearded dragons that died shortly after arrival or spread infections to peoples existing collections or cost the "winner" a lot of money trying to save them... even when everyone was screaming about it and providing proof in lab reports they ignored it. Then they started filtering post an not alowing certain words, like adenovirus to be put on their forums..... finally after reports to numerous agencies and their forum board full of complaints they discontinued the contest. Recently they totally removed the website, which i thought was strange to leave it up so long.

Sadly as what happens in this industry, they hoped people would forget and launched products under several new names and companies, when others tried to collect the different companies and warn people, they were threatened with lawsuit for letting the public know.

Its not just the fact that put diseased animals into peoples homes, its the ethics they practised along with it and continue to do.... Just a few months ago I saw Howard Fluker at a show in Tampa and talking to people that had a table who were promoting a new Reptile website, the next day he had his people at the show handing out fliers of his new "auction/forum site".... NO table, no right to be doing that when other had paid for the right.... just very questionable ethic.... the concern IMO is more on the dollar than care of the pets, the owners that buy them or the proper way to do things.

Just go to the top of this forum under OLD archives located next to the swimming dragon(not the search engine on this new forum) and put in reptile republic in the search engine, that should more than answer all your questions as you read the post by people who won or bought animals that were imported into the United States by them. Very sad and I will never buy any product or support a company that has mistreated animals or single handedly wiped out so many other animals so severly for the sake of a dollar

on a few articles from last year about Flukers and Reptile Republic

The contest:
The Winners Are

The Award and response:
Innovator of the Year Award?

The Companies:
Fluker Farms: What Next?

Is Repti-bid.com Flukers?
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TheClassyLizard

its another one of those hide and seek games, you have to trace the line:

Domain Name: THE ONE YOU SAID (it willnot let me type it) Created on..............: Mon, Nov 25, 2002 Expires on..............: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 Record last updated on..: Sat, Apr 26, 2003

THE ONE YOU SAID
Organization-DataPort
Brad Martin
1460 N.W. 107, Suite R GC251
Miami, Fl 33172 US
Phone: 305-735-8176
Email: webmaster@reptilianclassifieds.com

then:

Domain Name: REPTILIANCLASSIFIED.COM Created on..............: Mon, Sep 02, 2002 Expires on..............: Thu, Sep 02, 2004 Record last updated on..: Thu, May 22, 2003 Administrative Contact: China Foods Howard Chan Condimenio Penthouse San Salvador, ES SV Phone: 503-263-9955 Email: ffi@salnet.net-ffi is Fluker Farms International

Organization:China Foods
Howard Chan
Condimenio Penthouse
San Salvador, ES SV
Phone: 503-263-9955
Email: ffi@salnet.net then starts the cycle trace back to flukers ffi is fluker farms international

Thanks for info...*wiping tongue with Nolvasan for even saying the name*
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TheClassyLizard

I once heard that they sell iguanas as food in mexico. I dont know how true this is, but im sure you can check it out on the web.
-Stefano