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HELP! Baby Crickets invading terrarium!!

Rabbit87

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I have a terrarium that keeps getting infested with baby crickets.:( I saw this about a week or two ago and cleaned the terrarium out thoroughly and :confused:this morning I can see baby crickets running around all over the terrarium again.:confused: I was just wondering if there is anyone out there who has had this problem before that might be able to give some advice on how to sanitize the terrarium and any advice in general on keeping this from happening in the future would be wonderful :)

10 gallon glass terrarium
coconut fiber substrate
sm. log
sm. water dish
 
Are you sure they're crickets and not springtails? Springtails show up out of nowhere by the zillion, and they're decomposers. They won't leave the enclosure, and they're quite beneficial for cleanup, harmless to the animals. If they are crickets, you'll pretty much have to take apart the enclosure and start w/ fresh substrate. The only way to prevent them, assuming you're feeding adult crickets, is to not put in any females (they have an ovipositor sticking out the back end. You can look up photos).

Noelle
 
Yes, I am pretty sure they are baby crickets not springtails :) Thanks though! I will change the substrate and try feeding just males :) and see how that works out!
 
There's my mistake :) I thought I was putting male crickets only in there but I had the sex reversed so I was putting only females in there! OOoops :) now I know! Thanks for the tip!
 
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