Has anyone ever noticed the feeder crickets favorite food? When I put the wet hard dog food in their cage and some cricket food, they usually ignore the dog food. So, the next time I just place the wet the wet dried dog food in it for them, and they wouldn't even touch that stuff, unless they are really hungry and forced to eat. On the other hand, with the cricket food, when I go out to buy a new bach of small and large crickets, then put them into the cage with the crickets' food; they will right away head for the food and feed greedily on it. Another food they love is the tetra tropical and goldfish fish flakes. Man they love that stuff! And molt much quicker if they are offered tetra tropical fish flakes. Oh, and they also love apples. It's pretty cheap around here anyway. hehe! This is just the stuff I've noticed. 
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Has anyone ever notice?
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I wish I had read this before buying blue gel "water" and cricket feed in a jar. The crickets do OK in their posh cricket corral (Now I know I could have used a cottage cheese container or one of my son's critter keepers)but the per-pound price of their meals is just about what mine was at Outback Steak House tonight.
Just use chopped fresh fruits and veggies and you will find it to be much cheaper and healthier for the animals involved.
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If you go to your regular grocery stores, they will have like a section or trays full of old fruits ( not rotten, just old ) that they sell at very cheap discount prices. They are all sorts, banannas, apples, oranges, etc... I use to by those for my crickets. That and the fish food. Now I just usually give them the cricket food and provide them with small water tray. Make sure the water tray isn't to large and the water level is not to deep, or they will drown. I've had very good sucess keeping them this way. Before, when I bought 25-35 small ones just for my FBT's, they last me a while, like 3 weeks to 1 month, sometimes longer. Oh, and before I only had 1 FBT by the way, and those crickets grow, so I don't have feed the toad as much when they get larger. Now I buy the small ones in advance and let them grow to a well suited size for my leopard frogs that eats them too. And those large ones for my tarantulas and scorpions last probably 2 weeks on average, maybe less--depending on how old they are. My tarantulas only eat 6 large every two weeks anyway. They don't eat that much. Sometimes they go on a hungry strike and won't eat for a month as with my first Chilean rose is doing now. Some have been known fast for a year without eating. Tarantulas are low maitanance and cheap pets in the long runs.
