Happy meals make happy T's

[ShellsnMargarita]

Personally, I have a colony of crickets at the moment. I treat them like another pet since I know that their health is essential to my T's well-being. My only issue with them is that they're incredibly messy. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage cleaning their home without a massive jail break on my hands. I have them in a keeper with an upside-down egg carton. They seem to be enjoying themselves, as much as crickets can, so I'm happy to see how my T likes them.

However, what are some alternative options to crickets? I'd like to keep my T's diet diverse and give her something different to hunt every now and again. I've heard about roaches and someone mentioned mealworms to me once, but I wasn't sure what's best. What do you feed your T and how do you care for your prey? Also, where do you get the live prey? Here in my little town, we seem to only have live crickets. Everything else is in a freezer. Thanks. Happy eating!

 

[Atx13]

I feed my Ts a mix of meal worms(for the little guys) super worms(for the bigger ones) and crickets.. I'm planning on trying out dubia here soon, just been putting off ordering some..

 

[Bast]

I feed all of our T's crickets. I only buy the amount I need, so I don't actually keep them at all (I really hate crickets lol). I have thought about getting some mealworms, but I really don't have enough T's to justify buying them in lots of 50 or 100, and I don't really want to 'care' for them for the same reason. We can't get roaches here (at least not legally), but I know quite a few people use roaches over crickets.

 

[Nada]

Roaches (dubia) are the way to go. They're more nutricious,larger, don't smell, don't bite, and are easy to clean. Literally takes me less than 5 minutes.