How to Make Cricket Food

How to Make Cricket Food. Reptile owners need to have a supply of live crickets for feeding. Crickets have to be properly sustained by giving them food and water. Crickets should be fed nutrient-rich food because these nutrients will later be passed on to your pet. Crickets need protein or they will start eating each other. Cricket food is affordable and easy to make. One batch will last a long time.

Things Needed

• Blender or food processor
• Sealable plastic container
• Calcium-fortified corn flakes
• Baby cereal
• Raw unsalted sunflower seeds
• Wheat germ
• Honey toasted oats
• Alfalfa
• Dry skim milk
• Tropical fish flake containing spirulina
• Dry cat food or chick feed

Step 1

Mix together one part calcium fortified corn flakes, one part baby cereal, one part raw unsalted sunflower seeds, one part wheat germ, one part honey toasted oats, one part alfalfa, one part dry skim milk, one part tropical fish flake containing spirulina and five parts of either good quality dry cat food or chick feed.

Step 2

Grind the ingredients in a blender, food processor or grinder. Grind in short pulses until you achieve a coarse, crumbly mixture.

Step 3

Store the mixture in a plastic sealable container.

Step 4

Supplement the dry food and balance the diet by also feeding your crickets fruit and vegetable scraps. Add dried bananas to the dry food mixture if you are not able to frequently give your crickets fresh scraps of fruit and vegetables.

References

• Nyworms.com: Cricket Care and Feeding
• Crawford.tardigrade.net: A Novice Raises Crickets
• Chameleonsonly.com: Cricket Food Recipe