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are there any advantages to crickets over roaches?

Do they smell better?????????????? - NOPE!
Are they more quiet??????????????? - NOPE!
Are they easier to raise?????????? - NOPE!
Are they better for your animals?? - NOPE!
Are they easier to contain? - About the same?
Do most animals like them better?? - MINE DO!

Sorry for the sarcasm! ; ) I just couldn't help it. I just couldn't see any reason to mess with crickets when roaches are so much easier to raise. The survival rate of the young is 100% better with roaches and they smell is 100% less than with crickets. They are easier to keep clean. They are easier to feed and water. They don't make noise unless you can't stand the sound of them walking on egg crates and chewing in which case you wouldn't like crickets even more.

I personally would never go back to messing with crickets, not to mention my lizards never much cared for them anyway and they love roaches!
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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oops, that last one, my animals don't like crickets better, they like roaches better! They turn their snouts up at crickets! Always have!! Sorry about that! ; )
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
www.froggieb.com/MHDHome.html

The ONLY advantage I can think of to crickets over roaches, is the cost if you don't raise your own roaches. Roaches would be too expensive to use as feeders if you had to buy them all the time.

I'm in the process of getting a Discoid colony going, it's been 5 weeks now and I already have babies running around all over the place I CAN'T WAIT to permanently say goodbye to crickets!! Raising/breeding/keeping roaches is SIMPLE. I had heard that Discoids can be difficult to get started breeding, I sure can't figure out why LOL And most of the roach species have a life span of at least 1 year, so no nasty stinking "die offs" to deal with, I love it!!