No animal should live solely off of processed foods.
My brother kept reptiles. For snakes, it has to be live or frozen. They won't eat anything else. He would keep a tank of crickets for his lizards. Usually he'd put orange slices in there for them to eat. That also hydrated them without having a water dish that either dried up or was a drowning hazard.
I used to keep reptiles and amphibians as well. And from time to time crickets knew to escape. It's always such a long hunt before I found them again. And even if you think where the sounds come from, it might be coming from another direction.
Me too. Now my rule for live food cultures, is to always have two in case one crashes. I also want to have decent sized containers, at the very least 10 gallons each but I'll probably go bigger. And I want to keep a container to age their water in for water changes. I'll probably have way more daphnia than I need. But you still have to harvest them to prevent crashes. Maybe I'll find other fish keepers that would like them.
My search involved flipping furniture over.
Well, those escaped crickets kept me awake a couple of times when I wasn't able to catch them yet. For they make noise at night.
I hear you. That furniture flipping was in the middle of the night.
It's like anything else. You have to vary the diet. If you only feed the same food with no variation, then the fish will be nutritionally deficient in something.
I always have a good variety and plenty of live food,
