Adding crickets to the menue...need some advice though.

Hi Folks, I have a ~5-6" Leichardti and wanted to introduce crickets to his diet. I 've got some questions for those who have experience with this keeping in my he's still a little guy.

1) I can primarily get crickets at the chain stores (crickets for reptiles in multiple different sizes). Are these fine and what size of crickets do I go for?

2) For a single feeding, how many crickets is a "good" number for him to eat, to ensure it's getting enough? Do you also follow up with any other foods during the same feeding (i.e. pellets, blood worms, krill, etc.)?

I got him on Hai Feng (flowerhorn) pellets, Hikari foodsticks & some carne pellets, frozen blood worms, krill, recently started live meal worms too.

When feeding krill and mealworms, I also follow with a pellets/food sticks afterwards. Primarily for his tank mates, but he'll have some as well. Any inputs would be appreciated!

So 3-4 for my size Jordy? I will find "large". What is Nls?

What's a good number of large crickets? For example, would you feed an average of around 4 to 5 3/4" crickets, then follow-up with some other pellet foods, etc.? I know all fishes are different, but just want to get a ball park of how much cricket I should feed in one feeding...Thanks.

convict360 said:

I used to twist the heads off of mealworms, so they wouldn't eat their way out of my geckos stomach

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I never thought about that...it's been a few weeks starting mealworms too and my Lei seems fine. I would imagine, the little worms will die as the intestinal acids do its job. I'm also thinking, understandably, we baby our fish, but in the wild I'm sure even the little guys are chomping on a bunch of live critters and insects.