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This past week my Leo's crickets are acting funny. They run around normal and fine in the cricket box, but after an hour in the Leo tank start acting funny. For some reason they all seem to have a broken back leg that makes them flip over. Then they lay on their backs and wave their legs around until either they die or are eaten. I'd say more than 75% die rather than eaten since they kick her in the nose as she comes for a lick. The odd thing tho is that they're all doing it and they were purchased at 2 different locations.

My Leo is fine. She's fat and eating well on the few she does catch with a few wax worms for fun. Stool is normal. No changes to the habitat or temps. Just the crickets flipping over.

Should I keep feeding her them or just go get another batch? I'm afraid the crickets are getting something that's making them all sick.

Every once in a while that happens to me to, sometimes it has to do with the type of substrate. When I first had geckos I kept them on sand (not anymore since ive gotten into breeding) and the crickets would get sand stuck all over them, they would virtually go blind and jump into things get kicked or layed on by my geckos or just walk themselves to death. Crickets are NOT smart. they will walk around the cage until they run out fo energy and die. I have this problem in my cricket cases which is annoying cuz in bulk crickets are expensive. But anyways, I dont think it has anything to do with them being sick. What are you feeding them exactly, If you think its something there eating then just go to something simple like carrots and salad and maybe an orange for some liquid. See what hat does to them. If you are already using natural foods switch to some Flukers orange cube cricket feed, it works great. Keep posting about the crickets, experiment with them to find out whats wrong. ( also look into the temp.) it may be contributing to there deaths/behavoir as well. good luck.