lightheart
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You sounded a little discouraged maybe about the light and temp... don't be, it really is easy to keep the crickets and it is sooooo much cheaper buying them in bulk. I don't have a light on mine yet and they are doing fine, just checked the temps in the cricket bins, 72 for the 1/2 inch ones and 73 for the 3/4 ones. The only reason I want to put a light on the one bin is to get them to grow faster, if you are buying just the right size crickets for your dragon then you should have no problem keeping them alive, they need the higher temps to grow I think.
To save a little money on food cost for the crickets you could keep the majority of them fed with the bare minimum vegetable scraps and a water source, you could then pull out just enough to really gutload for actual feeding. I do beleive in the therory that you are what you eat so to me it's better to keep the crickets well fed all the time. When I sit and think about it the pet stores around here are keeping their crickets alive with just a potato and carrot so the crickets I would buy local by the dozen are not really well fed until they are gut loaded.
To save a little money on food cost for the crickets you could keep the majority of them fed with the bare minimum vegetable scraps and a water source, you could then pull out just enough to really gutload for actual feeding. I do beleive in the therory that you are what you eat so to me it's better to keep the crickets well fed all the time. When I sit and think about it the pet stores around here are keeping their crickets alive with just a potato and carrot so the crickets I would buy local by the dozen are not really well fed until they are gut loaded.
