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Hi! My Name is Rick...

I am a jack of all trades who doesn't know when to quit and has no time to worry about risks. I do what I feel needs to be done and live life with no regrets. I enjoy reading, writing, MMA, keeping reptiles, traveling, self improvement and technology. If I had to describe myself I would say I am a man of many facets..

THIS IS MY BLOG...

This is where I put all my incoherent ramblings for the world to read. This little site filled with random thoughts, opinions and facts is an extention of myself. If you are worth the air you breathe you will read every last post, comment often and check back daily to see if I have added any more content.

Crickets Need Food Too!

Let me start off by saying, many of you will think, “What the hell is this guy talking about” as you read this post. Due to that, I’m going to explain a few things. First off, many reptiles eat insects in captivity. The most popular insects eaten in captivity are by far crickets. The main thing most reptile owners forget when it comes to feeder insects is, what you feed your insects is also going into your reptiles. Some simple logic tells us the healthier the feeder insect; the healthier the reptile eating it will be in the long run.

Over the past few months I have done some tech work for Ronnie over at Cricketfood.com. In return for this work he asked me to order whatever I needed for my reptiles/feeder insects from his online store. I’ve used many similar products to those offered by cricketfood.com but Ronnie’s products are top notch so the offer was too good to refuse. After much thought and about 3 weeks to think it over I ended up ordering twenty pounds of Premium Blend Cricket Gutload and one pound of Premium Blend Salad Topper. Now this is a heck of a lot of cricket food and salad topper (even one pound can last someone months). The purpose of ordering so much is linked to my feeder business plan. I am planning on breeding some of the feeders I am going to be selling myself. This is not a first for me as I’ve bred almost all of the common feeders (crickets, silkworms, mealworms, superworms, mice, rats) but with all of this cricket food I can do so on a much larger scale and guarantee some of the best feeders out there to my customers.

My focus is definitely, healthy feeders. I’ve had my fair share of bad experiences with some companies (who shall remain nameless) when it comes to diseased insects.

The order arrived a few days ago but I didn’t have time until last night to go pick it up. I washed my cricket food dishes and cleaned the tote the crickets are in as usual after picking up the package and added some cricket food to the dish. When I checked this morning they were swarming the dish like bees on a hive! I then added some salad topper to both of my Bearded Dragons freshly made salads and within minutes they were eating the salad like it was going out of style. I’m not 100% sure what attracts the reptiles to the salad topper or the crickets to the cricket food but I’ve never seen it happen as quickly as I do with these products.

All and all I was provided with fast delivery and a great product. Take my word for it, this stuff lives up to the hype.

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