Premium Cricket Feed for Sale
Premium Cricket Feed is a dry, grain-based gut-load diet made for feeder crickets. You offer it free-choice in a dish, and the crickets eat it between purchases and before they go to your pet. Because what your crickets eat becomes part of what your reptile eats, a quality diet improves feeder value. Just as importantly, well-fed crickets are less prone to die-off, cannibalism, and the strong ammonia smell that comes with a neglected bin.
What’s in It
The blend uses grasses, oats, bran, and wheat, with vitamins E, B-12, and D-3 plus added calcium. TC sources the ingredients from facilities that avoid harsh chemicals and contaminants, which matters because residues can harm a colony or the animals being fed.
How to Use It
Crickets are not bedded in their feed, so the method differs from worm setups.
Offer It Free-Choice
Keep the dry feed available at all times in a shallow dish. As a result, the crickets can eat whenever they need to, which keeps the colony stronger.
Provide Water Separately
Crickets drown in open water, so use a gel or water crystal source instead of a dish of water. A clean water source also reduces die-off and keeps the bin from fouling.
Add Harborage
Give the crickets egg crates or cardboard for hiding and climbing. This lowers crowding stress, which in turn reduces cannibalism.
Gut-Load Before Feeding
For the best feeder value, make sure crickets have eaten well for about a day or two before you feed them out. Then dust with calcium just before offering them to your pet.
Honest Note on Calcium
A good diet improves cricket nutrition, but it does not fully fix calcium on its own. Crickets naturally carry far more phosphorus than calcium, while reptiles need the reverse. Research on cricket gut-loading shows that even a calcium-rich diet often fails to reach the calcium-to-phosphorus ratio reptiles require.
For that reason, treat this feed as one part of the routine. Gut-load the crickets, then still dust them with a calcium supplement such as TC Calcium Ultra Fine before feeding, especially for animals prone to metabolic bone disease.
Why a Good Cricket Diet Matters
- Fewer die-offs. A steady diet keeps crickets stronger, so you lose fewer before feeding day.
- Less cannibalism. Additionally, well-fed crickets are less likely to attack each other when held in groups.
- Less smell. A clean, well-fed bin produces less of the ammonia odor that comes with neglect.
- Better nutrition passed on. Because gut-loaded crickets carry more nutrients, your reptile benefits too.
- Simple to use. Finally, free-choice feeding means no mixing or daily prep.
Best For
- Keepers maintaining or holding feeder crickets between purchases.
- Anyone who wants to reduce cricket die-off, smell, and cannibalism.
- Reptile, amphibian, and bird keepers who feed crickets regularly.
- Keepers who want a simple free-choice gut-load diet.
Not Best For
- Anyone expecting the feed alone to fully correct calcium, since dusting is still needed.
- Use as a water source, because crickets need a separate gel or water crystal source.
- Bedding for worms, which is better served by a dedicated worm feed.
Recommended Add-Ons
- Live Crickets to stock or restock your feeder colony.
- Jumbo Water Crystals for a clean, drown-free water source.
- TC Calcium Ultra Fine to dust crickets and complete the calcium balance.
- Monster Worm Feed for keepers who also raise mealworms or superworms.
- Feeder Insect Mix Packs for variety across feeder types.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Premium Cricket Feed?
It is a dry, grain-based gut-load diet for feeder crickets, made with grasses, oats, bran, wheat, vitamins, and added calcium. You offer it free-choice in a dish.
How do I feed it to my crickets?
Keep the dry feed available at all times in a shallow dish. Then provide water separately, since crickets drown in an open water dish.
Does this replace calcium dusting?
No. Gut-loading raises cricket nutrition, but studies show it often does not reach the calcium balance reptiles need. Therefore, dust the crickets with calcium before feeding for the best results.
How do I give crickets water?
Use a water gel or water crystals rather than open water, which crickets drown in. A clean water source also helps reduce die-off.
Will it really reduce smell and die-off?
A consistent diet and clean setup help. Well-fed crickets in a clean, well-ventilated bin with egg-crate harborage tend to live longer, fight less, and smell less than a neglected bin.
What sizes are available?
It is sold by the quart, from one quart up to a gallon. Larger sizes suit keepers feeding many crickets or running a colony.
Learn More About Cricket Nutrition
These sources explain cricket diet, gut-loading, and why calcium balance matters.
- Journal of Insect Science: Effect of Diet on the House Cricket. A peer-reviewed study on how diet changes the growth and nutrient content of Acheta domesticus, which shows why what crickets eat matters.
- Study: Dry Gut-Loading Products and Cricket Calcium. Research comparing commercial cricket gut-loads, useful background for why a quality diet plus dusting beats relying on feed alone.
- ScienceDirect: Gut Loading (veterinary overview). A reference from exotic-animal veterinary texts explaining how gut-loading raises feeder nutrition and where its limits lie.
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