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I am going to buy the 1,000 crix from wormman.com - very good price compared to what I am paying at PetCo. His website indicates that something about the size of a larger rubbermaid container or a trash can or 20 gal aquarium is big enough for 1,000 crix. My question is do your recommend buying pinheads so they have a chance of lasting longer? I have 4 sub adult leopard geckos (ranging 35-45 grams)and normally feed medium size crickets but I am afraid to many will die before feeding time if I buy the medium or larger size.

BTW, the survival rate of my Petco crickets has improved quite a bit. The two changes I made was removing the dog food and the liquid gel cricket gutload. I don't know if it is just a co-incidence, but the last two batches of crickets have a higher survival rate since making this change.

>>I am going to buy the 1,000 crix from wormman.com - very good price compared to what I am paying at PetCo. His website indicates that something about the size of a larger rubbermaid container or a trash can or 20 gal aquarium is big enough for 1,000 crix. My question is do your recommend buying pinheads so they have a chance of lasting longer? I have 4 sub adult leopard geckos (ranging 35-45 grams)and normally feed medium size crickets but I am afraid to many will die before feeding time if I buy the medium or larger size.
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>>BTW, the survival rate of my Petco crickets has improved quite a bit. The two changes I made was removing the dog food and the liquid gel cricket gutload. I don't know if it is just a co-incidence, but the last two batches of crickets have a higher survival rate since making this change.

I would buy slightly smaller then you want to feed, as they will grow but they will not shrink, so at first your gex will get more littler ones and as the crix grow you can feed less. I usually aim smaller prey anyway as it is easier to digest. So I go with 3/8" crix for my gex, and the gex are all 60-70 gr adults. By the time they get through them they are 1/2 and 3/4"
BTW I had a 'pet' crix in with my hissers for a long time....the thing was a 3/4" going in there and it lived months! So they won't croak of old age too fast.
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Sonya