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>>304808 You might want to keep them inside. You buy crickets from a store so they aren't sick with anything that'll kill the gecko. I knew a family once that caught wild crickets and fed them to a gecko, and it was dead pretty soon after. I don't know if being outside among the other bugs would contaminate them, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
When I had a gecko, we kept her crickets in the laundry room, in a nice secluded place. They won't stink up the place if you clean it fairly often, and hopefully then the crickets won't be too loud (maybe shut the door). Our crickets could be heard throughout the house, but you get used to them. We never tried closing the door, though, as our cats' litter boxes were in there.
Ask a vet or someone who'll know better than me if clean store crickets being outside will make them ..not so clean.
They can eat mealworms and citrus fruits, dusted of course with the calcium powder, but often they find it hard to see and catch things that don't move much.
Geckos are great to leave for a weekend, there's pretty much no trouble as long as you give them plenty of water, and do not leave the heat source on over the weekend as it may melt/start a fire/kill the gecko. Also, don't leave for a while with crickets still in the cage, as they can bite/harass the gecko. (Once the white calcium power wears off, they're hard for the geckos to see).
I'm ashamed to admit that I rarely ever gave my gecko a heat source after the first few years, but that thing grew and grew and seemed to be quite healthy. Move a gecko very carefully, just don't drop it/bump it around a ton or it'll get stressed.
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