Saturday, 29 June 2019

Feeder insect recommendations needed

I am raising two tiny toadlets and need some advice. They’re getting to a size right now where flightless fruit flies are getting a little too small for them. I give been giving them pinhead crickets and flightless fruit flies as I haven’t seen any feeders that are a good size for this transitional period. The crickets are good but they’re very difficult for me to get. I have to order them online which i don’t mind but when the first order I placed arrived the package was a little damaged and a lot of them escaped in transit. The company sent me a replacement order and because it was so hot that day almost all of them were dead on arrival.

I’m running low on crickets and was hoping to get some recommendations for other feeder insects I can order along with my next cricket order. Meal worms are too large and I don’t have time to breed a colony of anything. Are there any feeders out there that are similar in size to pinheads, or slightly larger but without a hard exoskeleton? I’m avoiding night crawlers as I’ve heard horror stories of toads getting parasites from even the highest quality ones.

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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/c7001b/feeder_insect_recommendations_needed/

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