How much are people paying for live food?

[Mortisha]

It is nuts sometimes the variation in price here in Bathurst.
I try to shop around but it is a very limited choice.

100g mealworms usually ranges around $8, but my elderly Mum who occasionally feeds the wild wrens paid $30 for 200g today. Not very healthy looking ones either.

Crickets cost $8.95 for a box of about 30, sometimes more - sometimes less.

Is it the retailers changing the price or do the producers change their prices regularly??.

Are there cheaper sources available?

The woodswallows I'm rearing eat a box of crickets a day.

[Greg41]

Hi, Try [ frog.org.au ] They are a member on the Forum.

Cheers Greg.

[Pete Sara]

LIKe Bushranger said try frog .org. much easier to buy in bulk , it cost me around $40 for 1kg mealies and abouit $60 for 5000 samll crickets....but those are west aussie prices....pete

[Mortisha]

Thankyou - I will try them after this xmas/new year chaos finishes at the post office.

[venetta]

If any west aussies are interested, I use bugs n things for work They're down Kwinana way, I dunno if they let people off the street buy though??

I only order crickets and woodroaches (for reptiles), and I get them couriered to work.

[Pete Sara]

that be where I get them from vennetta, Alyson is a very lovely lady, just a short drive down the road for me.... a few other forum members get them from her to.....pete

[kenny66]

I get mine from the amphibian research centre in Vic.( frogs.org) They have mini-medium and normal mealworms all a competative prices. I also buy gentles from them. It took me a while and some mistakes to learn how to keep them but I keep a kg of 3/4 mealworms in teh fridge in a kitty litte tray in wheatgerm bran and 30,000 maggots in a smaller container in grain. The both last me a very long time.