Gourmet Style Crickets Reptile Food

My bearded dragon's favorite thing in the entire world is a handful of live crickets. The hunt is thrilling and makes for a very active day...Sheltering in place without a car has made me appreciate alternatives that my dragon will eat. This is one of them, even though the crickets are no longer living. I must say, if you have not seen "canned crickets", for a first timer, they can be a bit startling. Size, texture, odor, wateriness...I will say and I hope I don't ruin this for you for the rest of your life, they are closest to canned black olives, juice and everything. Live crickets are dry...these are not. Also since they have been soaking in from my understanding themselves, and the "large" crickets I was used to feeding my lizard live were roughly over an inch. These are like scary 1.5" to 1.75" large cockroach sizes, but stinkbug would be more similar in color, size and well, odor...I would recommend opening the cans in a well-ventilated room. Having been vegan for many years, I value nonharmful lifeforms....so it was hard enough for me to feed live crickets, but I didn't want to deprive my lizard of its natural diet (accompanied with vegetables)...this is a WHOLE new level of comfort I needed to get accustomed to..legs and pieces of crickets all in wet stinky juice. My go to was a ziplock bag--when you dump these out, plenty of brown water will also be coming out-- even after freezing or refrigeration, the smell is less but very potent...All I can say is I'm so thankful the lizard is eating these, since the pellets I tried were treated with disdain and left uneaten. I have even been a return customer, since they are not as welcome, but consumed with the look of contempt....at least they are consumed...so I couldn't be happier about that essential part.

Our Bearded Dragons really enjoy the bugs from Fluker Labs. They are not dried and gives them a treat that I cannot provide live to them anylonger because of where we live. They need to have the bugs every so often to keep them going and if you cannot provide fresh live bugs for them to hunt this is the next best thing and at least they get the nutrients that the insects contain because they are still juicy. The smell is not the greatest but the lizards like them. I will be expanding the types I get for our lizards also.

Excellent. My bearded dragon loves it

I got the crickets because ordering live crickets in the winter in rural Vermont is a no go. They smell bad, but not as bad as the zoomed canned crickets I previously bought. The cans also came entirely intact, probably due to the stronger plastic lids compared to previous brands I bought (and having an intact lid is kind of important storing crickets in a communal fridge). I was a little caught off guard by just how massive the crickets are and wish that information was a little more available (or maybe I should have just read a few more reviews). I have to cut them in half for my bearded dragon. The size also makes the can feel a little emptier compared to other brands of canned crickets I bought, though the reduced smell seems worth it and the can is lasting just as long.

Good quality and large size. Both my red eared slider and bearded dragon love them. I took one Star off as they are too pricey. The can is full though.