What would be the best feeder?

I live in Florida and my choices for my two baby leos and my baby crestie are limited to mealworms and crickets. What would be the best insect to breed for my baby leos? They aren't really eating mealworms that much, yet they loved stalking crickets. I'm wondering what would be the easiest and cheapest insect to breed. I would love roaches, but they aren't allowed in Florida. So, what would be the most healthiest bet for my leos for staple and as a snack for my crestie?

Discoid roaches are legal in florida (according to my last check, FYI) . But overall I think mealworms are easier and cheaper to breed, but like you said, some geckos just dont get stimulated by the lack of movement as well as some other geckos The nutrition between crickets and mealworms is a big debate though, so thats for you to research and decide for yourself (I personally hate crickets for many reasons, but thats just me )

Like Dinosaur said, there are several roach species that are totally legal - B. discoidalis, B. atropos, and B. fusca, just to name a few. Roaches definitely win in my book, between ease of breeding (you literally do nothing beyond just feeding and watering them, and add supplemental heat if your house is unusually cold) and nutritional value.

If you are in central Florida (like near Orlando/Kissimmee) you can shoot a message to Desire at Chamalot Chameleons and ask if she will sell you discoids. You can tell her I, Olimpia, sent you because she's a friend of mine and a super nice person. That way you save yourself shipping if you're local, too. I know people all over Florida, so if you tell me if you're a little more North, South, East, or West of Orlando I can probably give you the info of someone nearby Lol.

All that said, mealworms are also super easy to breed, I just don't think they're a great feeder to use as the bulk of a gecko's diet. So you can have them breeding in a corner but I think they shouldn't be more than 20-30% of the diet. Variety is key, along with a strong, varied gut-load.

I'm just wondering what to do because I'm feeding a crested gecko as well. I'm leaning towards crickets, but I don't know what to do about them smelling or the noise that they make. My in-laws are saying no to roaches, but I would rather deal with them than crickets. I want something more nutritional than mealworms, yet I don't want to deal with the hassle of crickets. I really wish they could just understand my reasoning to the whole roach situation. Even them never seeing or hearing the roaches won't work because there's still the "creep" factor that they're somewhere in the house - even though they are less likely to escape than crickets.

I'm feeding crickets and I find they don't have any smell to them, and with a heating pad under them they chirp a lot less, well that's what I found.