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Keeping crickets

DAND said:
Good grief. Sorry but no, no, no. :NoNo: If you spray them like shown in the video you will have dead crickets. The reason they "booked" to the paper is they were just sprayed and they were trying to get out of the rain and there wasn't anywhere else for them to go. There was no where for them to hide in the tank except on and behind the wet paper. Put a piece of egg crate in an empty tank and what happens? Right, they will climb on it but the majority will be hiding under it. Lucille and others feel free to try the way in the video but be prepared to need more crickets.
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yes if you spray them like that in a bare cage you will have dead crickets but the soil does not give the water a chance to collect , i prefer not to keep crickets but when i do i follow the methods in that and his other video to the letter , i used to keep crickets and i tried several different methods they always died until i started usuing that method , the system works
 
lucille said:
Why is it crickets are so stinky? Roaches and mealies aren't.
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Wet crickets tend to smell. Death tends to smell. Dead wet crickets tend to smell.

j walker said:
yes if you spray them like that in a bare cage you will have dead crickets but the soil does not give the water a chance to collect , i prefer not to keep crickets but when i do i follow the methods in that and his other video to the letter , i used to keep crickets and i tried several different methods they always died until i started usuing that method , the system works
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I have bred and raised crickets from pinheads to adults. I also have been distributing for a cricket company for a few years. Chances are I have dealt with more crickets then the next ten people collectively will ever use. Forward that video to any cricket company and I bet you will not find one that would recommend it's method.

I have had customers ask me "how do I keep my crickets alive?" and I have explained to them how, as I did above and the feedback I have received from them has always been positive. Hell, I have lost money in doing so since they now are able to keep their crickets alive and are not having to purchase them as often.
 
Wet crickets=dead crickets...as Dave said.The ones in the video are surviving b/c of the heat lamp...this is allowing them to dry out.It can probably work for a small amount of crickets as long as the heat lamp is there,and not on a bare floor of a plastic bin or aquarium.Heat lamp can also revive sluggish crix that come in the winter half-frozen.
 
Yeah, but you can get the best price in the world (with their special, my crickets cost half of what you paid, when I got them from New York Worms) but if you can't keep them chirping, it's wasted money.

The crickets arrived to day, bad news and good news. Bad news is that about a thousand fire ants crawled throught the screen and were there in the package at my door. (I shook most of them out). Good news is that the vast majority are still hopping and chirping, and that the suggestions here for getting a cricket container were perfect, none so far have hopped out.

I may just see if they can be delivered to the Fedex place about five miles away and I could pick them up there maybe. These Texas fire ants are something else.

Many thanks to all, for all the great suggestions and advice. Of course, now I am forced to consider buying more Ts since I have lots of crickets :D
 
Thank you everyone for your advice. My crickets are still going strong.
 
I've raised crickets.

First you said you were not wanting to raise just keep them alive. I'm not sure what you are asking.

I used to have the same issue of them all dying real fast. Temp unless too cold or too hot *(75 F is perfect) they will survive. I e-mailed several of the cricket farms and they all said the same thing. Only give them corn meal for food. Water for drinking. No fruits or anything else. Crickets cannot live off of a gutload. Gutload before you feed them.

To breed them, put hydrated coco coir in a tub on the warmest side of the bin. If you have gravid females they will do the rest. Take it out in a few days, put it in a good sealed cage/bin, then get it warm to about 80F and they will hatch in 1.5-3 weeks.
 
I currently breed and raise my own crickets for all of my dragons, it took me almost a year in getting it down right. But I know house nearly 15-50,000 crickets at a time depeding on season. For the most part if you want them to grow quicker and healthier keep them at about 90 degrees year round, pin heads adults and eggs alike all do great at this temp. If the temp gets to low you start to have trouble with humidity sticking to the walls of your enclosure and any higher you will cook them. Crickets that smell died from un natural causes poison, they ate each other etc. As for food I give them chicken feed its the cheapest $13 for a 50 pound bag and lasts me about 3 months. For water and mosture i give pin heads moist paper towel, and larger crickets i use a chicken water bowel with a sponge in it to keep them from drowning., When it come to layeing eggs, i use potting soil that you can buy form home depot keep it damp not soaked, and they will lay their eggs. then spray it every so often till they hatch. In what ever enclosure you decide to use make sure to allow as much open hair space as possible so you get less humitty on the inside which will kill any size cricket.
 
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