Bait Store Crickets ??
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summoner12
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I am not sure.. Some people do use bait store crickets.... But I am not sure if they are raised with the same quality control in mind as feeder crickets. I would ask to see the bait store's facility, if they breed thier own. The key is cleanliness. Where are you located?
summoner12
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what everyone does here is just buy some dubia roaches (online) then breed that colony and you'll have an infinite supply of feeders never having to buy crickets again or put up with the smell or high mortality rate. Much easier, but the sight of roaches or their presence for that matter isn't for everyone...
BTW, welcome
BTW, welcome
sandrachameleon
Chameleon Enthusiast
As suggested, check out the facilities / how they are kept. If it looks okay, I would think you could buy a batch of crickets from the bate place, keep them for a week or two (to see if they die, and to feed them good food) before feeding off to the chameleons.
summoner12
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everyone breeds Dubia? lol I don't know about that........
I don't have a huge issue with crickets... mine live pretty long.... well until I feed them off... The key is ventilating the air in the cricket bin.
Justin Carl
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Most bait store crickets come from local cricket breeders.
ie; Lucky Lure Cricket Farm or Armstrong Crickets.
Gut load them for a few days before feeding and they should be ok.
You do run the risk of the cages not being clean. A lot of the time they just get a few thousand in per week and dump them into the cricket tub.
Unclean tubs can hold a lot of hookworms or other common parasites, but you run that risk from cricket breeders too.
In my opinion, it's cheaper to just buy 500 from a local cricket breeder at a small size if you have one chameleon.
You will save more money in the long run.
ie; Lucky Lure Cricket Farm or Armstrong Crickets.
Gut load them for a few days before feeding and they should be ok.
You do run the risk of the cages not being clean. A lot of the time they just get a few thousand in per week and dump them into the cricket tub.
Unclean tubs can hold a lot of hookworms or other common parasites, but you run that risk from cricket breeders too.
In my opinion, it's cheaper to just buy 500 from a local cricket breeder at a small size if you have one chameleon.
You will save more money in the long run.
I wouldn't do that. They might put them in "non idea" setups made more for mass production for wild game consumption. At petstores at least them have guidelines to insure Healthier crickets. They might also feed them hormones to have them multiply faster. Nobody cares about wild game items like blue gills, so there really is no regulation if their stock gets strains of infections. Keep to petstores, what's the problem you don't live near one? Order online.
