'Bearded Dragon Diet: Storing, Feeding and Maintaining Crickets for Feeders Crickets and/or roaches should make up the majority of your \"live\" food supplementation when it comes to your dragon\'s diet. Since no one wants to go to the pet store 3 times a week just to pick up crickets, cricket storage bins make a great means of simplifying the feeding process. Using a cricket bin can preserve a batch of crickets over as long as a month with proper feeding and hydration. Crickets are still probably the most cost efficient main source of protein for your dragon. While not quite as healthy as Dubia Roaches, crickets still have plenty to offer and ounce for ounce are the most cost effective means of feeding. Items needed: Rubber Container (Rubbermaid Roughneck used in this vid) Aluminum Screen (Must be aluminum, crickets can eat through the vinyl) Hot Glue Gun Egg Cartons Food Source (Ground up cat food, greens and veggies) Water Crystals A video demonstrating bin construction coming soon. Tips and Tricks Bucket Trick Use a 5 gallon bucket when it comes to feeding time. Simply grab a few of the top egg cartons from the cricket filled cricket bin and shake them off into the 5 gallon bucket. This gives you a great place to enrich your crickets with a powered calcium, as well as somewhere to gather your crickets before you feeding without losing them all over the house. Cheap Food Don\'t skip out too much when it comes to feeding your crickets as they are the main source of protein for your dragon, and obviously you will want them as healthy and fat as possible for the feeding. Use a decent cat food ground up as an easy base for food source. Also take extra butt ends of veggies and toss them in. Crickets can eat just about anything organic food wise. Again, a simple rule of thumb is feed them what you would feel comfortable feeding your dragon. Finally, be sure not to feed or leave any veggies with mold on them as mold is a quick killer of your cricket supply. Cricket temps Store your crickets somewhere between 75 and 90 degrees. Anymore is a little warm for constant air temp, and any cooler could slow down your crickets, as well as their digestive systems. Also get used to the sounds! Water Crystals Water is important for your crickets, but they aren\'t exactly the brightest little creatures and simply putting a bowl of water in there would be destructive. Instead crickets need water from a source they can suck dry. If you always have some fresh greens in your cricket bin, you probably wouldn\'t need water crystals, but if not these are ideal. Essentially the same stuff in a baby\'s diaper, Polymer water crystals can be bought online and often times for far too much at local pet stores. A few ounces of water crystals can swell up to gallons worth of water absorption, so they go a long way and probably only need to be changed/refilled once a week. Start saving your paper towel tubes now! Have any questions? Feel free to ask. Check out www.BeardedDragonSource.com for more vids, pics and info.'
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