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for those of you that order live crix from flukers...how accurate is their count? I have been ordering my crix from reptilefood...I've been ordering 1000 at a time but have not been receiving 1000...I just picked up a shipment this past teusday and allready I only have enough left for tonight, he's a big eater but not that big...

the pet store where i get mine has them shipped from flukers. they sell 500 count boxes that they get from flukers. i've had some boxes that were good and some that were obviously short. what i think happens,especially with the smaller size crickets, is that if the ends of the box aren't taped properly then some escape. one good thing is that the flukers crix have been fed their special cricket food so they're already pretty well gut loaded. i still load mine anyway.

I'm quite surprised that you do not receive a good count from reptilefood.com. I always get very generous counts from them and deal with them almost exclusivley for my crix. They have great customer service and if you email or use their live chat (which works great!) I am sure they will more than make up for it.

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I had a whole box arrive dead and reported it, talked to someone also in chat and they replaced the shipment...that box also arrived whith less than 1000, which I let them know about...I've placed two more orders since and both were low on crix...I've been purchasing 2/3 inch crix for awhile and even the size has been off...the last batch was way small...from what I've heard here everyone else is happy with them...one reason I went with them in the first place...I've had a beardie since jan. but it feels like I've been dealing with crix forever...

i have been dealing with flukers for about 2 years now and i have no complaints what so ever. actually I would say the generously overcounted every box i recieve. I have 11 beardies in my breeder cycle and about 20 babies in rearing bins now and a box of 1000 lasts about a month for the bigguns!! aslo, flukers large crickets are the biggest healthiest longest surviving crickets I have ever purchased. FLUKERS ROCKS!!!!

All I want to say is that we took crickets from five major retailers, Three of those had very clean crickets, one had some gram negative bacteria, the fifth was loaded with several gram negative bacteria, some gram positive and a fungus. Another breeder also has had them tested and got the same results.

Call and talk to reptilefood.com about your problems, I am sure he would want to know and correct it if there is an issue with it.

They were one of the five we had a lab run the test on that was CLEAN, the other two were Armstrongs and Timberline. Due to obvious reason I will not state the two that had ill crickets if fed to dragons most likely would make them ill... if not right away, certainly over a period of time as those bacteria and alpha toxins build up in their livers.

Anyone can submit crickets for testing, IDEXX labs will run the test. Beleive me, the testing can save you much more than one vet visit would cost!
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