Fluker's Gourmet Canned Food for Reptiles, Fish, Birds and Small Animals, Crickets, 1.2 oz

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.

Great

These crickets are TERRIBLE, mostly parts, legs and heads, VERY few full bodies and they smell AWFUL. I've opened all four that I bought and they are ALL the same. I had to throw them out, I refuse to give these disgusting, nasty cricket parts to my pet!!

My beardie likes them we use these in winter when we can't get bugs shipped to use

We ordered the Fluker's Gourmet Canned Food for Reptiles, Fish, Birds and Small Animals, Crickets, 1.2 oz in an effort to see if we can find a bit more variety of food for our 12-inch Tiger Oscar. The product arrived in a vacuum-sealed can that was a bit difficult for my 70-year-old hubby to get open thanks to arthritis and peripheral neuropathy. However, he managed and "Oscar" (orginal name, right?) jumped all over the first cricket dropped in his tank. The product is a bunch of whole crickets inside the can with bodies about an inch long. The bad thing is that he seemed to gag on the cricket's hind legs. So, hubby removed the legs on next offering. Oscar eyeballed the carcass a bit then devoured it like he had eaten nothing for a week. Then, he regurgitated the whole thing, albeit that the body was pretty mutiliated and gushy. Seems Oscar was having issues getting the whole cricket to go down the throat. OK.... All of that to say that our Oscar seems to REALLY like the idea of a cricket meal. He just isn't too keen on the difficulty of getting it down the gullet. Based on Oscar's reaction to the product, we recommend it and will be looking for smaller crickets because pulling off legs and cutting down the body is just nasty work I can do without.

As someone who doesn't enjoy killing any animals including insects this is a good choice. Before you buy 1) Be prepared for a bad smell. Use tweezers since these things are admittedly gross. 2) Only purchase these if you have access to a freezer. Without cold temperatures mold will set in within days after opening the can.

My bearded dragon loves these !

The beardie loves these. I didn’t wanna get a whole bag in case he didn’t like them. There was a good bit in there for the price definitely cheaper than going to Petco and PetSmart. If I’m ever in a pinch, I will definitely order these again.

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

stunk like fish when I opened it, did not dare feed it to my hedgehog. Was not past its best before date.

The adult beardie eats them. Great option for smaller lizards because it's a little more... minced(?) and juicy than Can O' Crickets. The crickets are small to medium sized. I prefer the larger ones which are less juicy and less smelly, but to each their own.

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.