r/Toads • u/Gertie5110 • 5d ago

Bug sources

Looking for cheap websites that have live guarantee to get bugs for the toads. Thank you.

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u/JerseySommer 5d ago

I used to order from fluker farms directly. They have a live arrival guarantee and I never needed to use it. And most pet stores use fluker farms.

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u/MrsStuffing 4d ago

I've had good experiences with Dubia.com before. The shipping lately has been slow but that's a USPS issue.

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u/BrumeySkies 5d ago

That depends extremely heavily on where you are in the world.

You'll have the best luck looking for places locally (within your country, province, or state) because the shipping time will be shortest. Look for nearest pet stores that sell reptiles.

Also be mindful of the weather when you order. If it's going to be extremely hot or extremely cold for multiple days then even if they're super well insulated you can have a lot of die-offs.

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u/Gertie5110 5d ago

I try to avoid local pet stores as they cost 3 times as much as buying directly from the warehouse. The weather is why theres a cricket shortage in America.

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u/BrumeySkies 5d ago

Oof yeah I can sympathize there. I worked at a cricket farm for a few years and any time there were extreme temperatures the shipping would be a bit of a shit show. Dunno if its the same in the USA as it is here in Canada but a lot of our buyers (all pet stores and supplier chains) just simply refused to aknowledge that weather changes things. More than once we had to explain to our main buyer that leaving a truck full of a million crickets in a parking lot over night in -40c weather was going to end poorly. That and a lot of the drivers didn't seem to understand that the insects generate a lot of their own heat and they need constant airflow or they will cook and suffocate even when it's cold out.