What do you feed your crickets?

What about feeding "cricket" food? I know most kinds are very high in calcium which I'm guessing isn't too safe for hedgies but I'm pretty sure that's what the pet stores feed them. I only buy a couple at a time and its only a matter of a few days before my hedgie will eat them all. So is it ok to feed them the cricket food in the meantime? Or should I be feeding something else?

LizardGirl said:

I've never fed "cricket food" or "cricket water", but my guess is it wouldn't hurt in that small a quantity. If you are feeding several large, gut-loaded crickets, then what you were feeding them before would matter more. Just make sure there aren't any extra-nasty chemicals or preservatives in the food.

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Sounds good I will make sure there's nothing bad in it. I think I'll stick to feeding fruits and some cat kibble over the cricket food but I might try out the water crystals, just because I have a feeling a paper towel would dry up too fast since it's so dry in my house. You mentioned you used coconut fiber to keep the smell down, where would I find that???

LizardGirl said:

Yep, you can get compressed bricks of it for fairly cheap. I *think* the kind I got was Exo-Terra, I may be wrong. The brick cost around $3 and lasted quite a while.

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Thanks! I still haven't been able to find it anywhere, some pet store guy tried to sell me cat litter deoderizer as the "better alternative" and I kept looking at him funny, I don't think he realized what I wanted it for :lol: