Alternate Diet For Hatchlings/Juveniles

[SpiritScale]

I was wondering if someone with a little more experience could weigh in on this.
Right now, I have been doing the standard gutloaded cricket-dominated diet along with some salad for snacking on for Lowan my hatchling (rescue so exact age unknown, based on a size of 6 inches and weight of 10 grams approx not more than 1-2 months old). So far so good and he seems to be doing well and pooping etc frequently (he's only been home three weeks)

The problem is that I do not think I will able to keep on (especially cost-effectively) feeding him crickets.
My roommate and I (myself in particular) are noticing that our asthma/allergies are acting up with keeping crickets around, regardless of how often the tub is cleaned or how well ventilated etc.

We don't actually normally keep crickets around the house due to this and use other feeders. My roommate prefers to use silks, hornworms or supers for his leos and Bentley the adult male beardie. My skink eats snails, nightcrawlers, silks and hornworms. Crickets, if bought at all, are pretty much dusted in the bag they come home in and fed right away to the reptiles who will be eating them.

With a baby beardie in the house this isn't feasible and even buying weekly in my area would run me to the tune of $25 a week or more. Monthly (1000 crickets) costs $30---but the smell and respiratory issues are horrendous.

Would it be possible to offer up an alternative diet plan that *doesn't* include crickets and is reasonably economical to Lowan but gives them what they need? I live in Canada so dubias are illegal and locusts/grasshoppers may/may not be able to be found. But phoenix worms, nightcrawlers, woodlice, different species of weevils and worms and all your standard things like butters, silks, mealies, hornworms and etc are all available to me and I'm willing to do it. We also have a fairly good selection of beardie pellets and I dust with D3 calcium 5x weekly and multivitamin 2x weekly.

Thoughts?

 

[nursejones813]

I would personally go with the Phoenix worms for now while he's small just because of the high calcium content. In a few months when he starts eating you out of house and home, you may add horn worms, silk worms, butter worms and small super worms. Stear clear of night crawlers and meal worms. Good luck. It may get expensive. I know my 4 mo (almost 5 mo) old goes through 1500 crickets, 50 small supers, 100 Phoenix worms, plus veggies every 2 weeks. That's just 1 dragon.