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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jess S" data-source="post: 157639" data-attributes="member: 29302">I've only recently got my first T and am at the moment, using my local pet store for feeders. They supply crickets, locusts, wax worms, superworms and mealworms, but no roaches. I bought 3rd crickets, which were the smallest of all the feeders they had there that day. Way too big for my 1cm sling, so I've been prekilling. I could have just frozen them, but I wanted to keep them for a while to see what they were like to keep. What I've found is they are more work than my sling. You have to change fresh fruit/veg daily. They poo constantly and over everything, even their food. Obviously, that will cause smell and the dampness in their waste can encourage mould. With that and the way they huddle together in dark corners they are the rats of the insect world. There is no way you can provide any sort of water source. I found this out on morning 1. I'd put a wet cottonwool ball in a bottletop lid as a waterdish. There were 5 dead crickets in the morning. Now I just provide juicy fruit for their water source ( or potato would work) and I've still had one or two deaths but nothing like that 1st day. Obviously, I feed them carrots, dry cat food etc too.I was thinking about getting smaller prey for my sling. I'm leaning towards pinhead crickets. Bean weevils are being advertised as ideal. What do you guys think of those?</blockquote>