Fluker's 12 oz Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet Review

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I have a leopard gecko and I have been experimenting with several products for the various food insects I feed him. Over the last 2 months I have been switching back and forth between the Fluker's 12 oz Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet and a combo of Fluker's 8-Ounce Cricket Quencher Calcium Fortified and Hi-Cal Monster Cricket Diet (a powder). Here are my findings:

Orange Cubes:

1.) Crickets fed orange cubes are more likely to 'finish' this food however I very rarely see them eat it which makes me wonder if they wait until they are starving to eat it and then eat everything

2.) Crickets appear to die more often when fed this food (? Couldn't tell you why)

3.) My leo is more likely to leave survivors and ignore crickets fed this product

4.) The product has a funny decaying-citus odor I find unlikeable

5.) The intense coloring makes the crickets poop orange and yellow which is a pain to clean

Calcium fortified Cricket Quencher and Powder Diet:

1.) More expensive choice since you have to buy two products

2.) In a low-humdity environment (like most households) the Quencher can dry up quickly

3.) Crickets actually seem to like these foods and I often see them eating both the powder and quencher (I suspect they may like the flavor better)

4.) Less cricket deaths and more healthy/active crickets

5.) My leo is more likely to eat all these crickets and want more

6.) No smell, and no colored poop

Personally, I am going to return to the quencher and powder diet until other products become available. I feel that the orange cubes are more trouble than they are worth and the lower price tag doesn't balance out the price I pay in dead crickets and my leo eating more mealworms/waxworms/other feeders rather than the cheaper crickets.

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Keeping crickets for reptiles is kind of a pain. If you don't want to have to worry about what to gutload your crickets and keeping them watered and fed, I'd recommend this Fluker's Orange Cube. Provides a good gutload and water to your crickets and is relatively inexpensive. It doesn't provide any additional calcium, however, which is vital to your lizards. There are calcium powders out there which you can use on your crickets, but my vet informed me that the powders have been linked to neurological damage in reptiles. I suggest buying Phoenix Worms and ditching the crickets. But if your reptiles are picky (like mine) every once in a while a cricket is a fun treat, and Flukers makes it easy to not have to care about cricket maintenance so much.

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I've kept crickets for my tarantula for over 7 years with this. I constantly had crickets dying left and right. I never bought more than a handful and still they didn't live long. I figured that's just how it was. I picked this product because the company makes the separate powder and gel solution for hydration so I figured they had just conveniently combined them. Every time I went to the store I noticed they used the separate powder and hydration gel and the crickets were always eating it whereas mine never touched these cubes. I switched to the powder and gel to try it out and it has made a huge difference. The crickets constantly eat both and they live the entire time. I now buy a dozen (which lasts me over two weeks) and they almost never die. I have nothing personally against this product but it was not NEARLY as effective as the separate products. Again after years of trouble with this I am having way better results with the same companies other separate products.

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Works good for providing food and water to crickets and mealworms. For crickets it is best to also use Flukers high calcium cricket feed also to balance out the diet and make them more nutritious.

For mealworms, give them a mixture of oatmeal, bran, and hi calcium cricket diet or monster cricket food, and then put orange cubes on top. They dont mold like potato or carrots.

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I have a room full of reptiles and generally order my crickets by the 500-1000. I have used this product in the past and have experienced a lot of die off. I have better luck using the separate food powder and cricket water by Fluker's. I have also had much success with the Timberline food cubes (though its waaaaay more expensive and you can only order it from them) and the Nature Zone Total Cricket Bites.