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hello, i know that many people don't like to breed crickets but i dont have enough money to buy bulk crickets or other easier to breed feeders. so what i want to know is when are crickets mature enough to breed, what kind of breeding substrate, enclosure size and diet to promote breeding.
 
Breeding crickets sucks and it will take you months to really get going.....

If you're still interested, get large crickets. You'll probably want a couple hundred to start. If their chirping (males), then they are ready to breed.

I used eco-earth bedding in the egg tub. You can also use vermiculite, really anything they can lay the eggs in that won't dry up too fast. Leave the egg tub in the breeding container for a week or so. You should be able to see lots of little white eggs in the substrate. Make sure your crickets are getting adequate water and food.

Once you have a lot of eggs, separate the egg container from the breeding container. I put mine in a second tub to let the pinheads hatch. That will take a couple weeks. Once they hatch, give them water and food.

For water, I use water crystals. For food, ProGecko's Pro Gutload. I'll also throw in apple, carrot...anything else that I would give my mealworms, supers or dubia roaches.

I found that crickets just aren't worth it in my experience. Good luck.
 
Breeding crickets is easy. Take a 55 gallon aquarium, there cheap, place about 6-12'' of top soil in the aquarium, make sure it is an all natural brand with no pesticides. You need to keep the soild moist, I did so by misting ever so often. Then I placed about 500 crickets in the aquarium and BAM! I had babies. I couldn't use all the crickets, lol. I fed them Gut load, apples, oranges, potatoes etc. I had plenty of places for them to hide as well. It helped when I placed the aquarium in a dark closet. Closet temp was around 85 all the time, I never increased or decreased temp, I kept it natural. I ended up using them for fishing to keep the numbers down. I did move the pin heads to a seperate 10 gallon basically set up the same. I am sure there is a more "professional" way of breeding them, but this worked for me. They would tunnel down into the soil, so they could hide, lay eggs, basically a natural setting for them.
 
bestcrickets said:
here is a youtube vid I did awhile back. Hope it helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPNDmNMdxKk
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your video is similar to how I do mine.

I do not vent my egg containers. I use sand instead of dirt (makes pinheads much more visible.)

incubator I use flexwatt and water bottles.

pin head container I use plain fresh carrots. No food or water.

other than that, very similar. Good video.
 
mxracer4life said:
Breeding crickets is easy. Take a 55 gallon aquarium, there cheap, place about 6-12'' of top soil in the aquarium, make sure it is an all natural brand with no pesticides. You need to keep the soild moist, I did so by misting ever so often. Then I placed about 500 crickets in the aquarium and BAM! I had babies. I couldn't use all the crickets, lol. I fed them Gut load, apples, oranges, potatoes etc. I had plenty of places for them to hide as well. It helped when I placed the aquarium in a dark closet. Closet temp was around 85 all the time, I never increased or decreased temp, I kept it natural. I ended up using them for fishing to keep the numbers down. I did move the pin heads to a seperate 10 gallon basically set up the same. I am sure there is a more "professional" way of breeding them, but this worked for me. They would tunnel down into the soil, so they could hide, lay eggs, basically a natural setting for them.
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down fall to this situation is that the molts and dead will cause bacteria over time so you will need to swap out the soil to avoid this. Plus keeping eggs and small crickets around larger ones causes losses since large crickets have no problem eating their own. But the setup does work, it just isn't optimal.
 
suzuki4life said:
down fall to this situation is that the molts and dead will cause bacteria over time so you will need to swap out the soil to avoid this. Plus keeping eggs and small crickets around larger ones causes losses since large crickets have no problem eating their own. But the setup does work, it just isn't optimal.
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Agreed. I did have to change out soil occasionally.
 
Neilee said:
www.lucky13crickets.com check it out $10/1000!
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Yeah, I almost let this go. Figuring that they misunderstood the topic. Then I realized this is the second post of this nature advertising crickets on threads people weren't asking where to buy.

It was enlightening when I looked at the email address they registered with.

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Consider yourself warned not to spam this site. Start an Ad and quit pretending to be a helpful third-party when your not.
 
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