Feeding store-bought crickets

Flashygrrl

Most of them come "gut-loaded", meaning they've been fed vitamins and calcium and stuff. Are they safe for my fish or no?

Pasfur

I wouldn't. There is just no reason to. Given the number of commercially prepared foods that are safe, why even chance it?

Flashygrrl

Cuz I've got em for my tomato frog that we just got(or should I say hubbies frog but I get the task of feeding it apparently) but it being the only non-aquatic frog we have and having other stuff it should be fed too, I just don't see using up all of the crickets before they die(they come in one of those packages). Sooo, I figured I'd ask.

iamntbatman

I've heard of people feeding crickets to some of the bigger top dwellers and cichlids. Apparently African Butterfly Fish love them.

Flashygrrl

Yeah, I've seen bettas eat the really small ones (which I know my new one would love, yeah I seem to have acquired a lot of new animals lately). I just don't want to feed one to him if it's going to hurt him (obviously!!!!).

beetlebz

i feed my sevs whatever i find inside my hood lol loose cricket escapees from the firebellied tank, spiders, ants, you name it. those sevs eat damn near everything i put in there... im not worried about the crickets, but who knows. someone might post that crickets are made of radioactive poison grenades so whatever lol

Pasfur

It had slipped my mind, but now that you mention it, i used to find crickets in my basement and feed them to my Porcupine Puffer.

Amphitrite

I keep crickets to feed my leopard gecko, and used to chuck some into the tank for the sevs now and again. I never had any problems from doing so, but made sure that the ones I fed them weren't gut loaded.

Flashygrrl

Thanks all :)