I have been using Flukers for the past few few months. I am not sure that I am all that happy with them. I typically order 1,000 crickets at a time (I am just feeding one dragon that is just under 4 months). I know they can eat a ton at this age.
1 - I do not believe that I am getting anywhere close to 1,000 crickets in the orders I have been placing. I have been placing an order a week and when I empty the crickets from my order into the keeper that I built it looks like a few hundred as opposed to 1,000.
2 - I overlooked the beetles but I am going to add this to my list
3 - The last order I placed was right before Sandy. I 100% understand the issues caused by the storm. I live in PA and we got hit pretty good. I had ordered for overnight shipment (priority overnight). I received confirmation that the crickets shipped on Thursday. They were supposed to have arrived Friday morning/afternoon. They ended up not arriving until Saturday afternoon around 1:00pm. By the time they reached me more than half of them had expired from the cold weather. I understand this was not directly Flukers fault, however I would have decided against overnight priority and had gone with a heat pack in the order had I known they would be a day late. To add to this, had I received 1,000 crickets in my order the week prior I would have been ok supply wise. I ended up having to drop $53 bucks at Petco for crickets while I waited for the other shipment to arrive.
I sent Flukers an email on item 3 and have yet to hear back from them.
I just placed an order with
www.reptilefood.com for 2,000 crickets. I am hoping all works out with them.