does anybody have any experiance keeping feeder crickets alive?i have mine in a plastic container with crushed cat food,some veggies and some rat food.if i buy a bag of 40 than im lucky if 4-5 are still alive in few days.neither my fish nor my animals appreciate dead crickets,how can i lengthen their lifespan?
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What size crickets are you buying? If your buying adult crickets their pretty close to the end of their life cycle by then. Crickets only live for around 2-3 months. What I do is buy younger crickets...3/4's or so. Since i buy them a 250 at a time for my bearded this gives me at least a week or 2 to use them up. of course youll always have some that wont make it. Could be the quality of crickets your LFS is getting also. But in reality they should last a little longer then 4-5 days.
I buy small ones for my anoles feed them fish flakes and jurasic quench jell cubes with vitamins they live for weeks when they get too big my oscar gets them
The bigger and more ventilated the container the better
Give them stuff to crawl on besides each other, paper towel tubes are ideal
Gut load the crickets by feeding them whatever you would want your animal to eat ideally.
If you would like to breed them try a dirt/sand substrate
Remember you are what you eat
Give them stuff to crawl on besides each other, paper towel tubes are ideal
Gut load the crickets by feeding them whatever you would want your animal to eat ideally.
If you would like to breed them try a dirt/sand substrate
Remember you are what you eat
gel water and a bigger container is the best way to keep them alive the ammonia and dehydration is the biggest killer i hate keeping them for years know i've thought of trying freeze dryed crickets i hate the smell of them and the sight of loose ones hopping around lol
i never buy bigones always get a chirper the small ones last longer and are quieter hate the chirping too lol just hate crickets i'm going now before i say it again ..
i never buy bigones always get a chirper the small ones last longer and are quieter hate the chirping too lol just hate crickets i'm going now before i say it again ..
try this link
http://www.anapsid.org/crickets.html
its about breeding and raising the common cricket
http://www.anapsid.org/crickets.html
its about breeding and raising the common cricket
for water i put a shallow dish full of sand in the container and fill the sand with water till its barely above the sand this way they wont drown
I kept live crickets in a little plastic container for feeding my gecko. Worked very well, but it's noisy 
What I use to hold them in is one of those storarge rubbermaid containers. its a smaller one maybe a gallon or 2 in size. I cut a big sqare in the lid and hot glued some screen mesh to the underside of the top for ventalation. Just make sure its not fiberglass screen, i learned the hard way they can chew through that stuff lol. I also have a strip of packing tape around the top of the container this way when they try to climb up they get to the tape and that cant grip it and slide off. My LFS uses bigger open bins without a top and thats where i got the tape trick from. remember if your going to do that just put the tape at the top sticky side down. your not trying to make a fly or in this case a cricket trap heh.
What I do for water is use a bowl and fill it with water cause it lasts longer but i put a rock in the center taller then the bowl this way if one ever decides to go swimming he can grab onto the rock and either have his own island or leap off. I used to use a small peice of driftwood but the rock is easier to clean off
What I do for water is use a bowl and fill it with water cause it lasts longer but i put a rock in the center taller then the bowl this way if one ever decides to go swimming he can grab onto the rock and either have his own island or leap off. I used to use a small peice of driftwood but the rock is easier to clean off
