Cricket tip

[meiling]

I am curious about everyone's "environment" they use to keep crickets.

My tip I was going to suggest it to save empty toilet paper cardboard rounds.

I put 4-6 tubes into the cricket bucket and they crawl into the tubes. So, open the top, grab a tube with some crickets inside (look but don't tip them or they fall out) and then hold the tube over the water and DUMP. Works like a charm.

I use oatmel at the bottom of the bucket, TP tubes, grated carrot and bits of potato. Also grind up a few Hikari pellets fir them to eat.

So, how do you store you crickets? I'm really curious!

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

I do almost the exact same thing...never fails. I use a cheap rubermaid container, drilled some holes for air and I switch out the fruit and potato once they start to shrivel. I use a special gut load formula instead of oatmeal...that way as they eat that I can pass the vitamins and minerals on to my pets (fish & reptiles).

It's funny this post came up today because I woke up this morning and my cat got into the cricket container and decided to let them ALL out so he could play.

I take the train into Boston everyday and I was running late so I woke my girlfriend up and it was like "I'm heading out...love ya...by the way the kitten let 50 crickets out in the apartment."

I'm sure she loved it.

 

[fishconnection]

Hey meiling....


Used to keep crickets before using egg crates in a 10gallon tank. With a fine net cover. Also placed a small pot where i can put some soaked cotton.

 

[USMCtanker]

very cool i do kinda like that i have mine craweling all over egg cartons. i just grab one and shake. but ur idea works better bc i have a few that jumb off while i move them over the tank. thanks for shareing

 

[meiling]

That's why I like it, it's so easy to grab the tube and cover the ends then DUMP, sometimes a tube has 0 and sometimes there's 30 crickets in there.

My cats let 5 dozen crickets out not to long ago. Then I watched 5 cats chasing crickets all over the house. Then my bf joins in on the great chase, while still in his underwear! They crawled into our speakers and were so loud, he cranked the stereo volume until the whole house was shaking(If it's too loud, you're too old!) The cricket was never heard from again!

 

[BadDogsPa]

I freeze my crickets.no mess no fuss...

 

[Miguel]

Great idea that with the toilet paper carton!! With me it was cockroaches that run away...i can't even begin to tell you the mess it was.....

 

[frozen-fire]

I throw about a hundred or so in there at a time...don't really need any more than that. The system is similar to yours meiling.

 

[CTU2fan]

Use 2 rubbermaids/tanks/kritter keepers/whatever, put a tin pie plate full of dirt in one where they'll lay eggs, then into the other container. Keep 2 bins going so the little ones don't get eaten. You can buy gutload crix food or just do it yourself, high quality fish pellets are good, fresh veggies (especially carrots) too. I used to use the gravity-waterers with the dish part packed with filter fiber (make sure to plug the hole, or the dumb crix crawl into the bottle part & drown, and STINK).

I used to use eggcrates but the paper towel roll idea is a good one. The petstores actually sell a cricket keeper thing with basically a roll in the top (I think they call it a feeding wand or something) but basically the same deal.

 

[meiling]

I freeze my crickets.no mess no fuss...

You all have great ideas, but freezing them? My Aro won't eat them if they even are a fresh kill, he refuses live food that has died. Is this only my Aro?
How interesting......