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Are the can-o-foods products any good for bearded dragons such as can-o-crickets or can-o-grasshoppers?

The can-o-crickets are great. Much better than freeze dried. The grasshoppers, well, they just scare my bearded dragons. Those things are huge! They're at least 3 times bigger than any grasshopper I've ever seen.

are the can-o-crickets just as good as feeding live??

They're just as good, but baby and juvenile bearded dragons respond to movement, so it might take a couple tried before they start eating them on a regular basis.

I'm not familiar with these too much, but have seen them on the reptile supply sites. Can you please explain them a little. Are they freeze dried crickets I assume? IS there one brand better than the others, is there only one brand, is there anything to look out for when purchasing? Would they need to be dusted as well?

They're "cooked in the can". All moisture is retained. They are better in the aspect that freeze dried crickets are... dry.

The canned grasshoppers make GREAT sugar glider snacks.

There's only one kind, and like OS said, they're "cooked in the can". They do come in two sizes. A large and a small/medium. You treat them as you would live crickets. So if you have baby beardies, dust with calcium once a day.

The freeze dried kinds are just that, freeze dried, they're not very appealing.

What about the can-o-snails or can-o-worms??