Feeding your lizard crickets?

Question

I have a fully grown leopard gecko and for the 2 years that i have had him i have fed him meal worms. but since they need to be refrigerated and my girlfriend (who i have just moved in with) doesn't want the worms in the refrigerator, i am thinking of switching to crickets, but i have never used them in the past, and i was just curious as to what kinda housing is best to keep them in and what makes it easiest the get them from their container to the lizard's cage. any help is much appreciated

Answer 1

They are supposed to have crickets as a staple with mealworms as a supplement. I would keep them in one of those critter keeper brand cages. Use a thin sand bottom put in a toilet paper roll, Any organic matter like fresh fruits and bread are good cricket foods. They need fruits for their water content. Crickets LOVE to eat and If you pump them with nutritious food they will have more nutrition for the lizard. Every other feeding you can put the crickets in the bag with a couple pinches of calcium powder. Shake them up and serve!

Answer 2

I have a bearded dragon and 2 leopard geckos...I always have crickets in the house!!  I bought a thing called a "Cricket Keeper" at Petco.  It is basically a little house with tubes.  The crickets hide up in the tubes and when it's time for feeding, just tip the tube over and they fall out.  It's great and easy to clean.  When you run out of crickets, just slosh a little water around in it and dry it.  I love this thing and it was great when my mother had to lizard sit for me.  She's deathly afraid of bugs!!  It's the only way my babies would have gotten fed.

Answer 3

Are you asking like what you should keep the crickets in and what is the best container that is easy to get the crickets to your lizard?

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Answer 4

personally crickets are easy to contain i have 1000 in a 10gal tank and you can use a small net to get them fromtank to tank and also you might not want to put the tank were your sleeping they tend to churp

Answer 5

Mealworms, superworms (a.k.a. kingworms), silkworms etc. don't have to be refrigerated, in fact it's better you don't... unless you're thinking butterworms, or waxworms, in which case they do need to be refrigerated.  Just keep your mealworms in a little tupperware container with some cornmeal or oats (you can get bulk at almost any grocery store for super cheap) and they'll be good to go for weeks.  

Crickets are excellent for food as well, and they are much easier to digest than mealworms (mealworms and superworms have tough exoskeletons).  They are usually a bit cheaper than mealworms, but the only problem is if you get a lot at a time you need quite a bit of space to keep them in.  

I keep mine in a big tupperware box with air holes punched in the lid (they can't get out) and sand in the bottom for easy spot-cleaning.  You will also need to feed the crickets, called 'gut-loading'.  At most pet stores you can get 'cricket drink', or even better, something called 'orange cube'.  They're orange cubes that are the crickets' moisture as well as their food and calcium gut-load.  Alternatively, you can get dry cricket food or you can feed them any 'formulated pellet diets' for reptiles.  For my crickets I soak a bunch of bearded dragon pellets (since I would never actually use them to feed my beardies directly) in water and then they get tons of vitamins and moisture as well.

To get the crickets out of the container you can cut up strips of egg cartons (the cardboard ones).  They hide in there and when you want to get some out just knock them into a big yogurt cup.  If you want to dust them with some kind of vitamins, you can do so in the yogurt cup, too; just get some crickets in there, some powder, and swoosh 'em around a bit.  

It's really fun to watch Leo's chase crickets, too.  More fun than mealworms!  Hope this helped!

**EDIT** oh yeah, if you live in a place where it's warm enough, you can keep your crickets outside (at least in the summer; extreme heat or cold will kill them faster than anything) because they stink like @ss.  Lol.