Exo Terra Reptile Cricket Feeder

If you have a bearded dragon ( or any other insect eater) in a large enclosure, this is a GREAT item for feeding them crickets. The crickets sneak out of the “rock” one at a time and my beardie stands there and gobbles them up before they have a chance to scurry off and hide in the enclosure. I should have bought this a long long time ago. Of course , it’s an Exo-Terra product and they have NEVER disappointed with their products. This item was no different. Very heavy, well made. It will easily last the life of my beardie it is so sturdy. No more chasing hiding crickets out from behind rocks, underneath tanks decorations etc for my beardie to eat. Why if why didn’t I buy one of these years ago !?!?

It's very hard to cover crickets with calcium powder every morning "somehow" to be sure our baby bearded dragon gets his essential nutrients so we use this rock to do it. We sprinkle a small amount of calcium powder inside the rock. Every morning we place 3-5 large/small crickets inside (covering the peep whole every time we fish out crickets from their storage container). After turning the rock carefully upside down and shaking the rock side to side in a gentle manner, they get fully coated with the calcium. The crickets play inside for a short bit while getting coated with the calcium powder. The goastly looking crickets come out fully white playing peek-a-book for a short bit (while the dragon eyes the whole patiently waiting for its future meal to pop out. It makes for a very happy "and healthy" dragon at play with his/her food. Baby bearded dragon also likes to climb on the rock and rest a bit. Good purchase, arrived on time and a very hard sturdy design.

Got this for my chameleon. It works great to coat the crickets in the calcium dust but the little plug falls out way too easy so we don't really use it we just block it with a finger when we shake to coat the crickets and it works out fine

So I love the idea of this and it’s not a bad feeder, but unfortunately the plug is too big for the hole to stay closed. Idk if there was different sizes and they accidentally sent the wrong sized plug but I have to put a LOT of froze to keep the plug on. Otherwise, very neat container great for feeding my Gecko his crickets.

This is a great product! We’ve been using it for about a week to feed our bearded dragon. This product is a life saver when it comes to getting the powder on the crickets without making a mess! We have to put crickets into it in groups of about five only because any more than that it’s hard to open the lid to add more without them jumping out again! But that is no fault of the product, just the nature of the crickets, lol. I would definitely buy this product again.

I saw this on a blog and was really excited. However, after only one use I knew that it wasn’t going to work out. First problem is how to get the crickets in without them jumping out. I put the crickets in a ziplock bag first (as I normally do), dust them with calcium, and dropped them in the feeder. I even shook them longer, hoping that they’d get dizzy and not jump as much. However, as soon as some crickets got dropped in, they started jumping out. Luckily I placed the rock in the terrarium when I did this, so they were still contained in the terrarium. By time I dropped all 20 or so crickets in the rock, about 5 or 6 crickets already escaped. It was just a chaos trying to contain them while finishing dumping crickets at the same time. Some crickets stayed on the rim, which made closing the lid challenging too. So I closed the lid, and ONE cricket came out the entire time I was trying to catch the escapees from earlier (at least 5 minutes) . I opened the lid to see what the crickets were doing, and they were just chilling on the side of the rock. I don’t like the idea of leaving them in there, so I eventually just opened the lid. I’m disappointed that it didn’t work out the way it’s supposed to… so I’m sending it back. To me, the biggest problem is that I can’t make the crickets come out. It seems like it’s designed as a slow feeding system.

I like the idea behind this feeder. It feels substantial. It looks good. But it has significant flaws. The stopper doesn't fit, and requires modification to make it useful. Probably best to just get an appropriately sized rubber stopper at the hardware store. But the biggest problem is that it does not have a means to lock it closed. This may not matter too much with smaller lizards, but our full size adult bearded dragon figured out where the crickets were the first time it was used. Why sit there wondering if there are more crickets when you're a dragon? Just shove the rock until it splits and then you get all the crickets at once. (Never mind that calcium and vitamin dust go everywhere in the process). So while refrigerated crickets are easy to load into an opened cricket rock, warmed up crickets are even easier to get out (if you're a dragon) by kicking the rock open. Add a reliable locking mechanism and a stopper the fits and I'll be a customer for life. Otherwise, buy with caution.

My bearded dragon loves this thing, she's very excited every time the rock goes in the cage. I use toliet paper rolls in my cricket cage, so it's easy to shake the crickets into the rock by placing the rock into the cricket cage and shut the lid down on the rock before taking the rock out of the cricket cage. The biggest problem people complain about is getting the crickets in. I don't even use the rock plug, but it works fine. I just put my thumb over the hole. Sometimes the crickets don't come out fast enough and she gets bored, so I crack the lid open a bit too. I do have to admit, she's a lazy lizard now, won't chase crickets, she expects them to either come right to her or be hand fed to her.