Fluker's cricket food has worms in it????

[Rainnovice93]

So I have the Fluker's high calcium cricket diet, and i opened it today (used it last week & was fine) but today it had some cobweb looking stuff in it and lots of tiny meal worm looking things in it. The container was sealed, hasn't gotten wet & its been kept cool. Anyone else had this happen before? I bought another container of it cause Im not sure what these worms are...

 

[Embrace Calamity]

They're not worms. They're larvae. They're little moths that make web things like that. (I wish I knew the name of them.) That happened to my rat's food when it wasn't sealed properly. Sounds like the same thing, anyway.

~Maggot

 

[Rainnovice93]

is it unsafe to use for the crickets?

 

[Embrace Calamity]

I honestly have no idea. I just threw the rat food out. It's not like the cricket diet is that expensive, so if I were you, I'd just toss it to be on the safe side.

~Maggot

 

[Rainnovice93]

yea..i bought some more...if this one does it two im going to switch to something else

 

[Embrace Calamity]

yea..i bought some more...if this one does it two im going to switch to something else

It shouldn't. At some point when it was open, one of the moths must have gotten in there. If you make sure it's sealed, it'll be fine.

~Maggot

 

[cassicat4]

I've had the same thing happen with my Fluker's cricket food before too. Never opened. Mine had morphed into moths by this point though. I threw it out as suggested just because it creeped me out, and I didn't want to take any chances that some of the larvae could hitch a ride on a cricket and end up multiplying in my enclosures.