Do you buy crickets in bulk? If so, where from?

Bugmom said:

I have enough critters here that I need to buy crickets in bulk. I can burn through 500 in a week. I've had really bad luck so far ordering from companies that show up in Google searches. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm seriously at the point where my animals are becoming undernourished because I cannot feed them, and certainly not for lack of trying. Our pet stores don't stock enough for me and ordering online so far I've had orders show up with half or more dead, and twice I've had the wrong size shipped.

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JZC said:

Breed your own, or better yet, breed roaches. I've read good things about lllreptiles crickets, and can personally recommend JoshsFrogs.

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Bugmom said:

I've bred dubia and lobster roaches. It's sloooow going, and the dubia colony quit producing so now I have none.

But again, this is seriously a "I need to put in an order tonight" thing.

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skippydude said:

I'd order a couple thousand Red Racers if I were you. Trust me they breed 10x faster than Dubia
I bought 1,000 and a month later I had 1,000,000

Worse case you feed all of them off and have to order more, which is what your doing with crickets anyway

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Jones0911 said:

are Red racers the B lats?

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Bugmom said:

I don't have time to breed my own in that I need it NOW. On top of tarantulas to feed, I have 23 bearded dragon babies. They eat a ton of crickets. I've even tried canned juvie food for them but they won't eat it.

I'll check out flukers and josh's frogs. No one uses Craigslist here. I live in the middle of nowhere.

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