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I'm breeding them at the moment. I'm only breeding 40 though because 500 would lay wayyyyyyyy to many eggs. I built a cricket keeper with 2 sides and I leave this jello like water made for crickets by fluckers and I also leave potatoes and veggies. I put a small container of moist soil in one side with the crickets and you leave it all day and all night and the next day you move the soil to the other side and be sure to keep it moist and in 8 to 16 days the eggs will hatch and when you start running low on crickets do it again. Its really easy to do. The only hard thing is building the cricket keeper. You can also do the exact same thing but use 2 plastic tubs. I watched a video on the website that the dude a couple of replys ago put.
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I prefer breeding roaches over crickets. You can produce a lot more roaches in the same space and time as it would take to breed a few crickets. The roaches also have a much longer life span and they don't die off as rapidly as crickets.
-Mike-- 1.2.0 Dumerils Boas
- 1.2.0 Green Tree Pythons
- 1.4.0 Columbian Red Tail Boas
- 1.1.0 Sinaloan Milksnakes
- 1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
- 1.1.0 Blood Pythons
- 1.3.0 Corn Snakes
- 1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
- 1.1.0 Albino Nelson's Milksnakes
- 1.1.0 Crested Geckos
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I did it totally on accident once. But everything I have heard about people doing intentionally, it's hell. The smell like crazy too.
Try lobster roaches if you are looking for a small cricket sized meal for cresties. They breed quickly, don't climb or fly, and ar much easier to keep.
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Lobster roaches do climb, but don't fly.
-Mike-- 1.2.0 Dumerils Boas
- 1.2.0 Green Tree Pythons
- 1.4.0 Columbian Red Tail Boas
- 1.1.0 Sinaloan Milksnakes
- 1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
- 1.1.0 Blood Pythons
- 1.3.0 Corn Snakes
- 1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
- 1.1.0 Albino Nelson's Milksnakes
- 1.1.0 Crested Geckos
- 2.3.0 Blue Tongue Skinks
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Heats the key, it has to be about 88 degrees, I am getting ready to do the same thing myself.
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| how do you breed crickets what are the reQuirements.
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Just put a bunch of crickets together in a container with some dirt type substrate, Keep them fed, watered, and warm and you will have all the crickets (and stink) you can handle. With large quantities of crickets you need to clean the dead out regularly. If you allow the dead ones to pile up, they will produce a ton of ammonia and kill the other ones.
-Mike-- 1.2.0 Dumerils Boas
- 1.2.0 Green Tree Pythons
- 1.4.0 Columbian Red Tail Boas
- 1.1.0 Sinaloan Milksnakes
- 1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
- 1.1.0 Blood Pythons
- 1.3.0 Corn Snakes
- 1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
- 1.1.0 Albino Nelson's Milksnakes
- 1.1.0 Crested Geckos
- 2.3.0 Blue Tongue Skinks
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| I do it pretty sucessufully, but I go through a lot of crickets. I have a few large rubbermade tubs that I use for holding crickets. They each have have a few inches of moist coconut fiber on the bottom and egg cartons to hid in. The coconut fiber makes a great egg laying substrate and eliminates the odor problem (it sounds impossible, but it is true) as well as providing a safe, fungus free water source. I started out by putting about 250 crickets in each tub. I use crickets from only one tub at a time, I use about a dozen a day. By the time I have used all of the adults from the tub a close examination will reveal hundreds of tiny babies. You will then move to the next tub. By the time you finnish with the last tub the babies in the first should be large enough to eat. It may be a little costly setting up, $50-$75, but in the long run it is easier and cheaper than going to the store constantly and buying them.
Chris
1.0.1 Desert Spiny Lizard (Spike, Lee)
1.1 Leopard Gecko (Jet, Blu)
0.0.2 New Caledonian Crested Gecko (Bonnie, Clyde)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Honu)
0.1 Desert Grassland Whiptail (Joanna)
0.0.1 Yellow Bellied Slider (Squirt)
0.0.1 Map Turtle (Topo)
Chris 1.1 Desert Spiny Lizard (Spike, Lee)
1.1 Leopard Gecko (Jet, Blu)
0.0.2 New Caledonian Crested Gecko (Bonnie, Clyde)
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0.1 Desert Grassland Whiptail (Joanna)
0.0.1 Yellow Bellied Slider (Squirt)
0.0.1 Map Turtle (Topo)
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