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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Oosthuysen" data-source="post: 32263" data-attributes="member: 1070"><p>Well if you do or don't,tiny pinhead crickets can't harm a T. I have moved away from crickets as a whole,since they do not provide what a roach does in nutrition. Also,as the crickets grow when feeding them to slings you'd have to actually crush the head so that the cricket doesn't harm the sling. In the hobby there are things you do and don't do,but all are highly debatable. You've been lucky so far not to have any pinheads breed out, same as I have had luck with not losing T's or having bad molts. I say its the luck of the draw,and preference may play part in it. In my opinion no crickets for my T's,I'd rather feed them Dubia Turkistan or lobster roaches more nutrition and no danger towards slings. Another thing I hate about crickets,they don't have longevity like roaches thus creating more problems in the end. Not everyone can spend a lot of time with cage maintenance etc,so a cricket dies in a hide causing a possible mite problem or fungi which in turn equates to an enclosure problem. I can toss in a roach,if not eaten just remove and no problem. I have also spoken to people that used crickets(more prone to having parasites),they've had T's die due to possible feeder issues speculated but possibly a fact.</p></blockquote><p></p>