I was walking and I suddenly noticed on the floor that their was a cricket eating cockroach, so I wanted to share it. I took a video so I could share with you guys what crickets do in nature. So, if you ever wonder what crickets eat? Well, just maybe eating other dead insects is part of their diet. I don’t really know what crickets eat exactly, their so small, its kind of hard to figure what they would be eating. However, I guess that they eat other dead insects if they find some.

Pet Stores Sell Crickets

After seeing this, I remembered that Petco and PetSmart sell crickets for people to feed their reptiles. But, you can even keep them as a pet if you choose to. So, as for selling crickets, they also sell cricket food. Because, Duh! crickets get stored somewhere before being feed to a reptile such as a lizard. Also, sometimes they may be inside an aquarium for couple weeks before lizard eats them, so people throw cricket food inside the aquarium.

Fluker's Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet food

Cricket Complete Food 

I was curious on what crickets really eat, so I found this cricket complete food at Petco. It is an orange cube and the cube provides food, water, and vitamins in one. this eliminates having to add water, because I guess crickets can drown in water. The exact name of the food is called Fluker’s Orange Cube Complete Cricket Diet. The ingredients are: Water, Carageenan, Soya Protein, Dried Brewers Yeast, Dried Kelp, Calcium Carbonate, Spirulina, Potassium Sorbate, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, and Yellow #6 Food Color. So, if you plan on keeping crickets get that food for them, also have a large amount of cage because they like to jump.

Don’t Clean Dead Crickets from the Floor 

In other words, if you come across dead insects on the floor, don’t clean the floor, just leave the dead insect as is. Why? because crickets and other insects such as ants will eat them. Dead insects are food for many other insects, specially for ants. How many times have you seen marching ants eating other dead animals? Maybe thousands of times, so just let the other insects eat the dead insects.

Also, watching this cricket and cockroach I kind of wanted to keep my own cricket for fun. So, I have an idea to make a huge cage one that is 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide, so I can keep like 10 crickets inside. Talking about crickets I also wanted to conclude that I don’t like the way they are sold inside the stores. they sell the crickets in a tiny box of 10 or more crickets inside. As, I was looking in the pet store I noticed couple were dead in all of the cricket boxes. On top of that there is really no room for them to move, this feels like animal torture and should be stopped.

They also sell cockroaches inside the store, So if you guys watched this video and you guys want to keep a cockroach or cricket. Just make sure to get a big cage and keep a happy one, unlike the ones being sold at Petco and PetSmart.