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I have a leopard gecko and I have been experimenting with several products for the various food insects I feed him. Over the last 2 months I have been switching back and forth between the Fluker's 12 oz Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet and a combo of Fluker's 8-Ounce Cricket Quencher Calcium Fortified and Hi-Cal Monster Cricket Diet (a powder). Here are my findings:
Orange Cubes:
1.) Crickets fed orange cubes are more likely to 'finish' this food however I very rarely see them eat it which makes me wonder if they wait until they are starving to eat it and then eat everything
2.) Crickets appear to die more often when fed this food (? Couldn't tell you why)
3.) My leo is more likely to leave survivors and ignore crickets fed this product
4.) The product has a funny decaying-citus odor I find unlikeable
5.) The intense coloring makes the crickets poop orange and yellow which is a pain to clean
Calcium fortified Cricket Quencher and Powder Diet:
1.) More expensive choice since you have to buy two products
2.) In a low-humdity environment (like most households) the Quencher can dry up quickly
3.) Crickets actually seem to like these foods and I often see them eating both the powder and quencher (I suspect they may like the flavor better)
4.) Less cricket deaths and more healthy/active crickets
5.) My leo is more likely to eat all these crickets and want more
6.) No smell, and no colored poop
Personally, I am going to return to the quencher and powder diet until other products become available. I feel that the orange cubes are more trouble than they are worth and the lower price tag doesn't balance out the price I pay in dead crickets and my leo eating more mealworms/waxworms/other feeders rather than the cheaper crickets.
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