Keeping Live Crickets

I don't think I have metioned it so far, bhet bearded dragons eat live crickets. Funnily some people have thought the bearded dragon to be quite cute but flipped out at the live crickets!!

So far we have got a pack of crickets from the local reptile centre, and are waiting another couple of boxes from the place where we got the lizards: reptilekeeping.net.

It seems it is much cheaper to buy it larger quantities [it looks like we are gonna get through about 150 crickets a week at this rate].

A couple of places we have found sell them in larger quantities:

Live Foods Direct &

Live foods UK &

Global Live Food

The problem is that as soon as you buy lots [eg 500] then you have got to store them somehow!

We are currently looking at using a large plastic tank. The general advice is as follows

1) Store in a dark place at between 18 and 22 degreesC.
2) Provide food: a saucer of ProGrub, some sliced carrot, potato or apple. But place these away from each other
3) food must be replenished every few days to prevent fruit fly
4) Provide mosture by keeping a damp kitchen or something in the container. but keep it away from the ProGrub.
5) Put some egg cartons in to give them somewhere to hide,. but don't bother with anything else.

advice from live foods direct, and Fresh Live Food even better The Reptile Rooms [with photos].