Is crickets ok for axies?

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Hi there, hope you are all well. I have just bought a baby pet lizard (spiny-tailed monitor), and I feed her with medium sized crickets. Would it be ok to feed them to my axies too? I buy them from a petshop. Thanks in advance :)
 
Hi Sherri,

Crickets are fine for axolotls. Only trouble I have with them (besides opening that box of kicking legs and wiggling antennae) is that crickets float and swim (and jump out of the tank and across the floor and behind the cupboard and...:rolleyes:) - so you will have to feed them by hand or with a tweezers to get them down to the axolotls.

-Eva
 
Crickets are ok as a treat. They can't be fed as a staple because they need to be dusted with calcium and vitamins once a week, the problem with this is that the supplements will just wash off when the cricket hits the water.
 
Thanks to you both for your replies. I will give crickets as an occasional treat to my axies,then :)
 
My axie likes them as a treat. She won't take them from my hand, or from a toothpick (which is the way I normally feed her), so I let them swim around in the tank, and she likes to hunt them - good fun for her, I gather!
 
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