CRICKETS?
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Grasshoppers depend on where they are caught, many contain high levels of herbicides, pesticides, and natural plant toxins. Crickets are farm raised and this is not a problem. A drawback for some people is that adult crickets sing, I like the noise but have had roommates it drove up the wall.
Anyone ever have success keeping a stock of crickets? I would think they would be a lot easier than trying to breed guppies and mollies for home grown feeders. I just bought a 10 gallon I was going to try get some guppies going in but I think I will just go buy a bunch of crickets. I think you can just throw in some cardboard and a little wather maybe? and they are good to go. I have fed them to my 2 Oscars and JD one and they went crazy for them, I have never seen them eat anyting like they ate those things, just dominated.
I feed crickets to every fish I have. Malawi, Tang, ans SA/CA's. I just buy like 40 big & 40 small at a time. I freeze them first. It takes like 5 minutes then throw in what they will eat. No leftover parts here.
I had 100 crikets left already fed him 50 cost me about 20 bucks for 150 crikets but my oscar loved them but in Perth it was like kinda going over 40 i thought crikets should be fine went out there and they were all dead
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.my jardini is about 2 and a half inches now and thats all he will eat i have tryed to get him to eat something else but at no success. Are we supposed to give the crickets water to drink or mist them or something and im feeding mine something called gutload its a green smelly lump of jelly looking stuff i got at lfs and they love that
I was in Petsmart this weekend getting cat food and asked about crickets. They said they are extremely easy to keep. Put in a damp sponge, because they drowned in a bowl or dish of water, and that gutload stuff which you can buy at any pet store. They also said carrots and potatoes work good. Then you just throw in some old egg cartons (cardboard no plastic) and away they go. I got a real small Manganese in a 10g grow tank right now that when he is large enough to move out I am going to through it out on the porch and load it up with crickets.
My fish absolutely love them, I throw them in live because they kick around and the fish seem to like that even more. But of course if you do that you my have an escapee or two...but cats eat them to apparently haha or at least mine does
My fish absolutely love them, I throw them in live because they kick around and the fish seem to like that even more. But of course if you do that you my have an escapee or two...but cats eat them to apparently haha or at least mine does
Just about every type of fish will devour crickets...LOL...its hard to resist the little kicking motion the crickets do trying to swim...
all my cichlids love eating crickets, but it was especially fun watching a mudskipper catch and eat them.
