Fluker Fams

[chadwick757]

I just received my order of 500 crickets from fluker farms and will not be a repeat customer! I discovered upon bringing the box inside that crickets were getting out. I discovered that they had cut a 1 11/2inch hole in the pox and slapped an inspected by sticker on the side over the hole and not sealed properly. Also the care taken indicates inspected by either # 1, or 7 or letter C it looks kinda like someone dropped a sharpie on it and said good enough. Also we had a HUGE number of worms living in the box with the surviving crickets, Ie the live crickets not stuck to the back of the inspection sticker. I have never seen this low of quality before in general, not to mention the crickets didn't look terribly healthy. I will be contacting them about the situation but have found that an Anole owner had a similar experience. I expected them to be reputable but have found them to be completely inadequate, I have no plans to feed these insects to my Mojo....Anyone had similar experiences?

 

[ErinMeetsMachine]

No and I'm sorry. Have you e-mailed Fluker?

 

[MIssAnn]

I have been ordering from Flukers for a while now and have never had any problems.. Everything I have ever gotten from them was in perfect order. I would def. email or call them and let them know.

 

[chadwick757]

Just e-mailed them and will post again with the response I get. This was the just disgusting! Anyone have recommendations of trusted companies for my reorder that wont cost an arm and a leg for shipping?

 

[aoscar]

I suggest seeing what the local pet store would charge, mine said $26 for 1000. I had a bad expierence with Southern cricket wholesale as they "lost" my order and never sent me anything. How do you lose an internet order? They had it when I called them last week to inquire about about shipping info as I was given none when I filled out my order. I'll pay a couple extra bucks if it means I get my order and get to see my order to ensure that they are healthy looking feeders. I've been reading a lot on the subject and see it as hit or miss. Think about it , they don't care if I never order from them again, the local pet store will though. Just my 2 cents.

 

[DistDrag]

I always had good luck with Ghann http://www.ghann.com/. I don't use them anymore because I found a local source. I also had pretty good luck with reptile food.com http://www.reptilefood.com/reptilefood/. There were a couple of times I had a problem with an order but they always took care of it no questions asked.

Kevin

 

[ErinMeetsMachine]

I use Top Hat Crickets. They have great prices and for certain states, there is free shipping. I can place an order before noon on monday and have been early wednesday.

 

[Annageckos]

LLLReptle.com , cheapest I have found and fast.

 

[jakeh2009]

I just made an order of 500 to Millbrookcrickets.com, it was 13 dollars shipped for 500, and 1000 was only 18 shipped, did alot of looking and they seemed to be the cheapest so far, other places wanted 24-28 bucks shipped. I will let you know how they look when i get them. They seem to know what they are doing there, 30 years of service. Was going to go with a larger order but didnt want half to die, will soon be getting roaches. but yea anyway check out there site, you may have to use Internet explorer because i was having troubles with my firefox browser so i called and she asked me to try IE and it worked fine. Good luck

 

[chadwick757]

They never responded to the email. Just called and they apologized offered to resend the crickets but we asked for a refund. They are gonna refund it for us. If you have a problem look up the phone number or you may not hear back from them. They said that the worms are normal though not in the quantity we got and you can feed them to reptiles. Don't know that I trust doing that though because I have heard they are typically found in unhealthy setups with lots of die off. Im gonna see how premiumcrickets.com turns out. Breed my little Dubias Breed!

 

[mpbrown2]

I buy from cricketsonline.com and always have good service with them.. Free shipping that gets to me next day is sweet!

I am also begging my Dubia to breed faster

 

[spyder86]

i use primiumcrickets.com and they are great. i do the 2nd day air and you get a few dead ones but for the most part they were all alive and health when i got them. i would recomend them to you but i would say that roaches sound like they are the better way to go

 

[CammaRizzle]

Jakeh... how did those crickets turn out? I checked out that site and 500 shipped for 13 is a great deal. Let us know!

 

[jakeh2009]

havnt got them yet but since the weather in IL is still cold they charge for a heating back, hopefully tomorrow they will be here. well let everyone know.

 

[spyder86]

i tried to get on their site but it doesn't work, none of the links will open.