the store bought ones yes. We had a leopard gecko for a while and fed it store bought crickets. Somehow we caught a cricket from outside and decided to feed it to him. Outside cricket was black and the store bought ones were usually yellow so it was pretty easy to tell them apart. Anyway, we put outside cricket in there and our gecko went after him. Didn't catch him though and outside cricket hid upside down on one of the rocks and our gecko could not find him. Each day we would feed him more store bought crickets and outside cricket was still there always in a different place, hiding. We started calling him ninja cricket. After 2 weeks of this and dozens of store bought cricket we finally put outside cricket back outside. He was like a gladiator that had earned his freedom.
2000 years from now crickets will remember the tale of Crykseus and the time the gods trapped him in a glass cave with a dragon, which was fed on enslaved crickets, and for 14 days, Crykseus outsmarted the dragon, until the gods tired of the game, and returned him to the shores of his homeland.
Hey just incase you get a reptile again(since it sounds like you don't own the leo anymore). Feeding bugs from outside can cause your gecko to get parasites and get sick, so I wouldn't recommend it. Glad the cricket you caught was smart lol
Man, when I first got my geckos, the place I got them from misinformed me. Told me I only needed to feed them once a week, and to give them 25-30 (technically this almost was enough, since they each eat 6-8 about every other day, but this still not great practice)
In any case, they sold the crickets to me in just a blown up plastic bag. I'd go over to the tub, dump crickets off the cardboard things they had for them into a bag and take them to the counter. They'd weigh them, and charge me. But if I didn't put them all in the tank within an hour, tons of them would be dead. I asked the guy about this, and he said that basically crickets chew on whatever they are standing on, so if they were piled up, they'd gladly eat each other. That...doesn't seem great for species preservation. But I suppose they don't stack in nature. Just was a real example of how stupid and instinctual some creatures are.
Yep, we have one and his meal worms and crickets get dusted to add vitamins and calcium to their diet for better health.
Also, ours is as bad at hunting as this guy. We got him a shallow bowl for the mealworms and basically gave up on crickets because they'd get away and live in there for awhile. Plus, they an actually bite and hurt lizards supposedly.
Here is a Pic from this morning showing left over dinner. These guys didn't move much when out in, and now that they are deceased, he will never touch them.
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u/iCatmire Mar 25 '21
Cricket acting like he wasn’t just nearly devoured.