Posted on 12/30/2018 12:13:49 PM PST by EdnaMode
For Christmas this year, my family adopted a young bearded dragon lizard as a pet.
Our dragon, whom we named Holly, eats a lot, and the thing she loves to eat most is crickets (typically about 10 a day, in addition to other things like mealworms and vegetables). From the get-go, I knew that keeping an ample supply of crickets on hand would require some planning. We live in a rural area of northwestern Minnesota. The closest pet shop is an hour away, in North Dakota. Restocking our cricket supply would require a time commitment of at least two hours out and back.
By Christmas Day this year, Holly’s cricket supply was running low. I decided to order crickets online, which I had never done before, to save a trip to North Dakota. I bought the crickets from Fluker Farms, one of the more well-established online insect vendors (yes, these exist and there are a lot of them). I decided on a shipment of 250 crickets, which seemed like a reasonable amount for a lizard who is theoretically capable of gobbling up to 50 of them every day.
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LOL! You’re on your own on this one! ;)
I once kept a jumping spider as a pet- He/she ate baby crickets. I finally released him.
Get a dog, moron...or even a cat.
Were the crickets cheep?
Growing up in Minnesota I don’t ever recall seeing crickets sold for bait. That may be more of a southern thing and/or mountain trout fishing thing?
The bait shop at the cabin had 3 or 4 types of worms, leeches, and maybe 8 to 12 big bins with various types and sizes of minnows. I wish my memory was better - my grandpa had me get a certain kind of minnow every time. Maybe three inches long. He’s put the hook in right behind the dorsal fin iirc, a small weight and a big bobber and sit out on the dock.
That was too boring for me - I just wanted to cast.
Lizard as pet?
How fast can you say Listeria, Salmonella and Entero-virus?
Yeah, it could be a regional thing. We had them in bait shops in California.
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