Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet, Gut Load Food for Feeder Insects and Live Crickets, Provides Vitamins, Minerals, and Hydration, 12 oz

Good product. Keeps the crickets fed so I can keep the leopard gecko fed.

If you like to keep your crickets on hand for daily use these are wonderful. We prefer to order a big box of crickets all at once and then feed the crickets at the same time as we feed the geckos. These have made it so we can keep them alive as long as we need. We've found the water ones aren't needed they ignore them. Less than 10 bucks and they can last a long time if you're feeding a few small ones.

### **"Convenient and Nutrient-Rich: Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet Review"** I recently started using **Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet** to gut-load my feeder insects, and it has made a significant difference in keeping my crickets healthy and well-nourished before feeding them to my reptiles. This **12 oz** container of orange cubes is designed to provide **vitamins, minerals, and hydration** to feeder insects like crickets, and here’s my full review based on its effectiveness and ease of use. ### **Convenient and Ready-to-Use** The biggest advantage of **Fluker's Orange Cube** is how convenient it is. Unlike traditional gut-loading methods where you need to provide separate food and water sources, these **orange cubes** are an all-in-one solution that offers both **hydration** and **nutrition**. There’s no need to worry about adding extra water or special foods—just place the cubes in your cricket container, and the crickets will have everything they need. The **pre-made cubes** are mess-free and easy to handle, and they take the guesswork out of gut-loading feeder insects. I find this especially helpful when I’m in a rush or need to travel, as the cubes can be left in the cricket enclosure for extended periods without needing constant attention. ### **Vitamins, Minerals, and Hydration** One of the key benefits of using these orange cubes is that they provide **essential vitamins and minerals** to the crickets, which are then passed on to your reptiles or amphibians when they eat the crickets. Crickets that are properly gut-loaded offer more nutritional value to the animals that eat them, making this an important step in maintaining the health of your pets. The cubes contain important nutrients like **calcium, vitamins A and D3**, and other minerals that help keep feeder insects healthy and hydrated. I’ve noticed that my crickets seem more active and healthier after eating the cubes, which translates to better nutrition for my reptiles. The cubes also help prevent crickets from becoming dehydrated, which can often happen with traditional dry gut-loading foods. ### **Hydration Without the Risk of Drowning** Hydration is a critical part of keeping feeder insects healthy, but water dishes can pose a drowning risk for crickets. The **orange cubes** eliminate the need for a water dish entirely, as they provide hydration in a safe, easy-to-access form. This reduces the risk of crickets drowning and keeps their enclosure cleaner since you don’t have to deal with spilled water. I’ve found that the crickets are drawn to the orange cubes, and they get plenty of hydration from them. This is particularly useful if you’re housing crickets for an extended period or if you live in a dry climate. ### **Long-Lasting and Mess-Free** The **12 oz container** of **Fluker's Orange Cubes** lasts a long time, even when you’re feeding a large number of crickets. You don’t need to use a lot at once, and the cubes maintain their shape and texture in the cricket enclosure, so there’s very little waste. Unlike other food and water sources that can spoil or become messy, the orange cubes are **clean and long-lasting**, making maintenance much easier. I typically place a few cubes in the cricket enclosure and leave them there for several days. The cubes don’t get mushy or moldy, which makes them more hygienic and less likely to attract other pests. ### **Perfect for Multiple Feeder Insects** Although I use these orange cubes primarily for crickets, they work just as well for other **feeder insects** like **mealworms**, **superworms**, and **roaches**. This makes them a versatile option for anyone who keeps a variety of feeder insects on hand for their reptiles or amphibians. I’ve noticed that mealworms and other insects also seem to thrive when eating the cubes, and they remain well-hydrated and active. ### **Pros** - **Convenient all-in-one solution**: Provides both nutrition and hydration for crickets and other feeder insects in a single product. - **Vitamins and minerals**: Offers essential nutrients like calcium, vitamins A and D3, ensuring that feeder insects are properly gut-loaded. - **Hydration without drowning risk**: No need for a water dish, reducing the risk of crickets drowning or making a mess. - **Long-lasting**: A little goes a long way, and the cubes stay fresh in the enclosure for several days without spoiling. - **Versatile**: Suitable for crickets, mealworms, superworms, and other feeder insects. - **Mess-free**: Easy to use, with minimal waste or clean-up required. ### **Cons** - **Not a complete food source**: While it provides hydration and basic nutrients, you may still want to supplement with other gut-loading foods for a more varied diet. - **Cubes can harden over time**: If left out for too long, the cubes can harden, making it harder for the insects to eat them, so regular checking is important. ### **Final Thoughts** **Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet** is an excellent and convenient solution for anyone looking to properly **gut-load feeder insects** like crickets, mealworms, and roaches. The **all-in-one formula** simplifies the process of feeding and hydrating your insects, ensuring that they are nutritious and healthy when fed to your reptiles or amphibians. If you’re looking for an easy, mess-free way to keep your feeder insects well-fed and hydrated, I highly recommend **Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet**. It’s a great way to enhance the health of your pets by ensuring that their food is packed with the nutrients they need!

Keeps crickets alive longer. Less messy than cut veggies

Didn’t really get eaten as well as advertised.

Excellent feeder cricket food with a pleasant smell. They love it and it does need to be refrigerated after opening.

After trying everything else (including potatoes, apples, wet rocks, wet moss…), I finally bought Fluker’s Orange Cubes. I also use Fluker’s cricket diet with calcium and a slice of apple changed every two days. This is the magic combo to keep feeder crickets alive. Before I was cleaning out 3-5 dead crickets every day. They drown in even the tiniest bit of water. But the Orange cubes keep them hydrated. Potatoes stink and attract gnats, apples alone don’t have enough nutrients. I still don’t like having feeder crickets to take care of, but this makes it so much easier. I keep the jar in the fridge, and put out a new cube about twice a week. Another helpful thing was to get a small cricket keeper with built in tubes a feeding trays (see the photo). I put some bark, folded cardboard, empty TP tube and a piece of egg crate. I haven’t found a dead cricket in days.

So I ordered this online, because it was cheap, and then went looking for crickets, and bought the crickets from Flukers. This means Flukers is likely to have been feeding them this diet already, so it's unlikely they'll all die in 24 hours. The only downside to ordering crickets from Flukers was that all of the crickets are dead set on escaping and they missed on staple, so the few hundred crickets I bought for my Geckos started to escape in my room before I caught them. I ended up having to plug up the bathtub, put the box in there and set up my cricket bin. I put Eco Earth in the bottom with some garden soil and earthworms and then egg crates. This meant there was already moisture in the box, which guards against the high summer temperatures. Then I put in this cricket food. Starved, they ate the food quickly, decimating the 8 cubes in 2 days. And guess what? They didn't die, probably because they were trained on this food. I did notice that different cultures of crickets act differently. Subconscious selection, maybe. But the Fluker's crickets are straight escape artists. A bunch of them tried to escape. But they were also easy to gut load on this food. The major chain brand crickets I buy tend to be super docile and don't move quickly. They die quickly too... which confuses my geckos when I switch between crickets. And then my local petstore, has really active, but not escape-minded crickets. Either way, Flukers crickets are pretty happy eating Flukers' products (no shocker), so when I cut down on the escaping cricket population, the rest of the population doesn't seem to mind as much to eat this food. Also, the mealworms I gave this to seemed pretty content to eat it as well. I don't really have complaints--except for Flukers for breeding escape-minded crickets. But the food worked for me. They might want to consider making one that's not citrus flavored, though, so people with arachnids can also benefit from gut loaded insects. I read that arachnids hate citrus and there is a whole bunch of it in this product.

Crickets use them, but why do the cubes smell so weird! They stink the whole tub out! Lol keeping the feeders alive and thriving so it's all good

Great and easy to use product. I keep thousands of crickets at a time for the herps. And this product makes it so simple to use and clean up! My crickets thrive on this stuff, and naturally.Works as it should. Crickets stay alive longer.I order thousands at a time & they last week's longer & stay healthier, amazing.

The crickets love it and seem to be doing quite well. They polished off a small bowl full in 24 hours. I love the fact that this allows for me to gut load my crickets so that they’re a better quality meal for my bear die.

Crickets love it but it dries out very fast.

The crickets seem to love it. It lasts longer than I thought! I have it stored in the fridge to keep the freshness.