I had to break down and buy crickets for the tiny new Ts i got. The pinhead lats i had molted and the tiny guys wouldn't eat them, even cut up into smaller sections. They wanted to hunt! so the pinhead crickets lasted me until i could order more pinhead lats. And now that i have a breeding colony of dubia going i'l give it a few months to build and start feeding those. All of my T's now will eat them, unless they get away and burrow under, only a couple i have will dig them up. Also got some meal worms i'd be happy to ship to anyone needing them. the small size - 1/4 - 1/2". I cut the feet and heads off and feed them to my tiny T's, they go nuts for them I goofed on my last order and saw a sale for 50 count tubs for $2.50 in retail packing. Didn't read the fine print it was 1 dozen tubs for $2.50, so i have 2 dozen tubs now of 50 mealworms each lolI've got a hundred, or close to it. Over the last few years I've bought at least 600 lats, and 300 dubias...my colonies have been decimated. Ny lats are almost gone, very few surviving breeders, and all my dubias except three are females...spiders, most especially slings, will decimate roach colonies. Crickets, even home grown, are not a viable option for me anymore, even if I didn't hate the filthy bastards. Crickets are dirty...dirtier then roaches by far. The short lifespan makes them so. Its why they stink, and why they attracts horrible parasites, like nematodes . Lateralis, and dubia, are not trouble, or time consuming . No matter what size your colony. You've been at it long enough to make the transition away from crickets. Try it, then come back and argue with me