What is a good cricket diet I can feed my Anole's crickets???

Question

I feed them Tetra Fish Food. I have tried feeding the crickets Flukers Orange Cube Cricket Diet but they die! Do you know of anything else I could feed the crickets so my Anoles can get more calcium & vitamins???

Answer 1

I feed mine high calcium leafy green veggies,fruit,dry gutload and dogfood...I also keep a piece of apple or potato in the tank for extra water.

Answer 2

Yes. Crushed up dog food, mix with or serve dry rolled outs alone. Any fruits and veggies you want to dice up small would be good to leave out for the crickets. Most important you must keep down water for the crickets or they will die quickly. Just a small drizzle of water in a shallow lid usually works best so they won't drown. If you don't have any already buy calcium powder and dust the crickets good before putting them in the cage for your anole to eat. I'm not sure where you live or what type of insects you have there, but I live in Florida where anoles are all over the place. You can feed them a wide variety of insects including fireants. I wouldn't recommend bees pr lightning bugs I heard they were bad, but they love flies, moths and ants. Catching some bugs from the wild would help supplement nutrients he and the captive kept crickets aren't getting.

Answer 3

we feed our crickets crushed up GM disney's little einsteins cereal (the star shaped one, the pet store also said to try fruity pebbles crushed up) and put in an old milk jug cap. for water whenever we mist the lizards we spray the crickets too. and then when it's lizard dinner time the crickets get put in a bag to 'shake&bake' with repto-cal before feeding them to the lizards. sometimes we put in leftover raw veggies or fruit pieces for the crickets but not too often bc they usually go bad before the crickets eat them.

Answer 4

Chicken feed actually works really well. Its very high in calcium and other nutrients and very inexpensive.

Answer 5

try live food