Jay0818":piztzu20 said:
The picture is from a couple days ago. He's about 7 1/2" long. A lot of the crickets are bigger than the space between his eyes, and a few are a good 3/4" and up and theres a couple that are the length of his whole head!
I plan to switch him over to dubias or reptiworms (I'm still deciding which - it may come down to which he prefers to eat) but he's going to have to eat crickets for a few days in the meantime.
Put the oversized crickets into a sample bottle or plastic jar with a screw on lid , and freeze them if you don't plan on breeding your own crickets.
The frozen crickets can then work as a emergency source of insect protein when he's a few months older if you run out of live insects.
Silkworms up to 1 inch long are an excellent staple feeder (don't need to dust them either).
Blowfly gents (maggots) are excellent and don't need dusting. They like catching and eating the flies when they emerge from their pupa too (a cricket feeding rock is perfect to put some pupa in , as the flies emerge they'll make a sound that will attract the hatchling who will be able to grab the flies as they crawl out the whole (meant for crickets …. I do this with BSFL pupa and my hatchling figured it out very fast and would be waiting for the fly to emerge).
Blowflies produce smaller lavae, but fatter faster flies.
gents/maggots
pupae & flies
BSFL (get the 2nd instar versions in the order, the 3rd instar are good too) ,don't need to dust these) , again the flies are a great feeder too. Species Hermetia illucens
Crickets , I'd be ordering 1/4 size (about 26 days old = 6 - 8mm long) for him , order enough to give 3 feeds per day for 2 weeks at a time.