Bugs in a tin (Zoo Med Can O'Crickets)

Member Name: RattieFink

Product:	Zoo Med Can O'Crickets
Date:	05/02/09 (50 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: convenient

Disadvantages: Gross, smelly, not nutritionally complete, unlikely to be eaten, expensive.

Basically, can o' crickets is a bunch of cricket bugs in a can...you would use it for feeding reptiles, birds and so on.

I bought one of these to try my beardie on, just to add a little variety to his diet, and he turned his nose straight up at them. Even when put in his salad he just ignored them. Bearded dragons like to see their prey move before they eat it, so the fact of the matter is that unless you can convince your pet its alive by wiggling it in front of its face, they are unlikely to eat these, and they are obviously very unpalatable if my beardie even refused to eat it when it was in his vegetables.

In addition to this, the insects in these are actually cooked. Supposedly this is to soften the exoskeleton to make digestion easier, but in reality it probably means any goodness in the crickets have been cooked out of them. In addition to the fact that they wont have been gutloaded (prefed healthy foods which will end up in lizard when it eats them), these are pretty much nutritionally useless.

At around £4.50 a can, these are also too expensive to use as a staple food when feeding bearded dragons, which is just as well really.

Once opened, these go off very quickly and start to stink.

All in all, if you can get your lizard to eat them, these might be a good way to vary their diet, but they shouldnt be fed very regularly, even if the lizard will eat them.

Summary: Just what the headline said.