Cricket Food?

[mysterysock]

What do you guys to feed your crickets? On hand, I have some roach chow that I got with my dubias.. will that work? Or is there a preferred cricket feed somewhere? I have fluker's for gutloading but need some regular food and wondering what my best bet was.

 

[apbgv]

I feed my crickets fish food and chicken food along with the regular cricket food. Some occ cat food or dog food.

 

[neecie]

My crickets LOVE the powdered baby food cereal (put it in a bottle cap)

 

[patrickb]

Fresh fruits and veggies, along with some high protein dog/cat food work well. Crickets will eat anything almost literally. A good non-medicated chicken egg laying mash works very well and can be bought in 40-50# bags for around $8-12 at a local feed store. The roach chow will work fine too, just might get expensive, as crickets eat a lot more than roaches because of their higher metabolism. Baby food cereal, whole oats and other grains are other alternative cheap food sources for them as well. Just try to make sure you have a high protein diet to keep the cannabalism to a minimum.