Crickets for New Veiled

[falconut]

I'm about a week away from getting my 2 month old Veiled. I would like to make sure I have food when he arrives. I was planing on ordering 1/4" crickets online.

Any idea how quickly will the crickets grow? I can order 250 or 500 1/4" crickets for about the same price. 250 would be the striped kind and 500 would be brown crickets. At about 10 a day, 250 sounds like the better number, I'd need to order today to get them this week. Just need to know if I can expect them to be too large to feed in a few weeks.

If they're going to grow too quickly, I may just see if the local store sells the smaller crickets.

 

[carol5208]

Plan on feeding him about 20-25 a day because that is what they normally will eat. They are little eating machines. I believe it takes about 5 weeks for them to grow to maturity. Allow for die off because they will.

 

[falconut]

Then it sounds like 500 might be the better way to go. I'd much rather have more then less.

 

[jannb]

I'm not sure it I gave you this website before or not but lindasgonebuggy.com is an excellent place to buy feeders if you only have one or two chameleons. She has value packs of 4 or 5 different feeders for like $20.00. It's just the right amount of food to give your guy a variety and not have allot of feeders go to waste.

 

[falconut]

I'm not sure it I gave you this website before or not but lindasgonebuggy.com is an excellent place to buy feeders if you only have one or two chameleons. She has value packs of 4 or 5 different feeders for like $20.00. It's just the right amount of food to give your guy a variety and not have allot of feeders go to waste.

Yes, I've got that site bookmarked. But it doesn't appear they sell crickets. I'll probably use them for some suppliments.

 

[jannb]

Yes, I've got that site bookmarked. But it doesn't appear they sell crickets. I'll probably use them for some suppliments.

They sale crickets but I have never bought crickets there. I use Armstrong because they never have the cricket virus.

 

[falconut]

They sale crickets but I have never bought crickets there. I use Armstrong because they never have the cricket virus.

I see them now. They certainly have a great variety of food choices.

 

[falconut]

I wound up ordering them from an ebayer, he was in the next state (PA). Ordered on Tuesday and got them Thursday, all appear to have survived the shipping. Now it's time to gut load them for the new arrival next week.