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I feed my beardie greens, pellets, and live crickets ( I think she's too young for supers and mealworms). I'm tired of dealing with live crickets, I hate storing them and I hate hunting them down when they escape. I had the idea of freezing them and feeding them to my beardie mixed in with her greens and pellets. Does anyone know if this is a heatlthly or harmful idea? Personally I don't see any harm because she getting preserved nutrients.

Before I stopped using crickets all together, I used to freeze mine. The key is to gut load them first then freeze them. Allow them to thaw before you drop them into her salad dish.

>>I feed my beardie greens, pellets, and live crickets ( I think she's too young for supers and mealworms). I'm tired of dealing with live crickets, I hate storing them and I hate hunting them down when they escape. I had the idea of freezing them and feeding them to my beardie mixed in with her greens and pellets. Does anyone know if this is a heatlthly or harmful idea? Personally I don't see any harm because she getting preserved nutrients.
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Lisa
www.beginnersbasics.com

Cricket FREE babies!

I don't know if it's an issue with crix or not but thought I'd ask.

Thanks!
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Rob

I wonder if the freezing kills the parasites that some crickets have. If it does, I have several beardies that have been converted to RepCal pellets instead of crickets because of the parasite potential. But they love their crickets! If I could feed them thawed out frozen ones that I knew were parasite free, that would be great! Anyone know about this?

Veronica
Beautiful Dragons

Veronica try the zoomed can o crickets. They are cooked in the can, and the vitamins and nutrients get locked inside. I'm pretty sure if there were parasites in the crix they would die as well during the cooking process. All my adults just love these canned crix. I take one out at a time dip them in the cal/or vit and toss them towards the dragons, and they all go nuts for them. At first it took a little pushing them around to make them look alive, but after they taste them they don't care if it's dead or alive. To them it's just tasty. I feed these to all my adults instead of the live crickets. Zoomed works out a price cause I buy it buy the case load, lol. Greens/pellets daily and on their live feeder day it's supers and canned crix for the adults. and their healthy like always, their weight is not effected/ not too fatty, and their stool samples have been clean for almost a year now using them.. Works for me. Babies/amd juvies still get all the greens/pellets and live feeders they want until they are almost adult age, around 8 months then I try to start the canned crix, and supers
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Mystical Dragons

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its great, you can buy in huge amounts. frozen cix don't bite, chirp, stink, eat anything but the first gutload, they don't get loose, i feed them to my beardys and my savannah. i just defrost them and put them in thier bowls. i usually throw a hand full of live crix when i get my orders, just for the hunt. but soon enough i will switch everyone over to roaches.