Live food pains.

[Minimum3]

I live nearly thirty miles from the nearest pet supply store. Phira has not been getting a lot of crickets or live food. I also don't want to order a thousand crickets or worms. Phira wouldn't be able to eat them all before they died. I have several Dragon Supplement for food if he runs out of fresh veggies. I have been soaking freeze dried crickets in water before giving him them. He rather enjoys them. He doesn't get them everyday. There's nothing wrong with him, it given the amount of fuel I've spent buying ten crickets at a time, or the freeze dried ones a good hold over until I get him live ones?

 

[kingofnobbys]

Order in bulk , but only enough for 2 or 3 weeks at a time , and include a about 1/2 of the crickets a size or 2 smaller than he's currently eating in the order - by the time he's ready to eat them they will have grown.

Will still be cheaper than buying piecemeal in tubs of 50 or 60 roaches or crickets.

 

[Taterbug]

Have you considered breeding your feeders?

If he would eat it I would personally consider some of repashys meal replacement gels over freeze dried crickets. A substatial part of the nutrition in crickets is diet related and who knows what the feeeze dried ones are fed

 

[AHBD]

Freeze dried crix are fine in a pinch or once in a while [ use a good supplement on them like Repashy calcium plus ] but ordering in bulk is the way to go.

 

[Rankins]

Raising bugs or ordering in bulk are probably the way to go. I live nearly an hour from any pet stores (I live in a town of less than 1000 people) so have had the same problems until I started breeding my own bugs.

 

[Laurierrt]

Silkworms are super easy to hatch and raise.... its much cheaper ordering eggs and hatching them myself!

 

[kingofnobbys]

Silkworms are super easy to hatch and raise.... its much cheaper ordering eggs and hatching them myself!

.... I'll second that. Buying a few hundred eggs and letting some go full life cycle (and laying their own eggs that you can chill for later and hatch as needed) make them very handy as a lizard's staple feeder insect.
All you need are a couple a 4L freezer tubs (with lids that have had air holes drilled/melted into the lids) to raise 300 silkworms.

If you can get fresh mulberry leaves these keep very well in a loosely sealed freezer bag in the crisper , and out of season you can use blanched frozen then thawed mulberry leaves or silkworm chow.