Feeding Crickets
Before we get to the breeding process you should know what crickets drink and eat. This is very important because with an inadequate nutrition your crickets will die or prey each other. Another important factor is that if the quality of the food is not good, those crickets won’t be good for your reptile or amphibian.
- What to give the crickets to eat:
There are several commercial products that can be bought, like JurassiDiet, Fluker’s High Calcium Cricket Feed or Nature Zone Cricket Food Bites.
If you’d rather prepare your home made cricket food, here is the recipe:
Buy commercial dried cat food, put it in to tub, add 10 parts skim milk powder to 1 part of a good quality calcium supplement intended for reptiles and amphibians. Put a cover on the tub and shake it so the powder coats the cat food.
To serve the food to the crickets we will use jar covers or something similar.
- What to give the crickets to drink:
Water can be a problem, if you serve it on a jar cover crickets can drown. If you use damp cotton wool or spounge you can have an issue with bacteria, and it’s also quite messy.
The best solution is to buy a product such as Fluker’s Cricket Quencher or Nature Zone Cricket Water Bites
You can also use make your own water gel. Just buy water crystals at a plant shop, mix it with water and you will get water gel.
- Complete Cricket Diet Products:
Also you can find products that will provide nutrients and hydratation such as Fluker’s Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet or Nature Zone Cricket Total Bites.
