Ahhh, blessed quiet...

[spotropaicsav]

Awoke to sweet silence after my G. rosea killed its horribly loud feeder cricket in the night. What a relief!

 

[keks]

I know this feeling: I spent a half night to find the clittering cricket in my old big flat, it drove me crazy with it's noise. Every time I turned on the light, there was absolute silence. When I turned off the light, it starts to make noise.
Like a radar I could minimize the radius of this noise. After hours I found it behind the refrigerator. Silence. Heaven, how good can silence be.
From this time I only bought semi-adult crickets ^^.

 

[Mojo288]

This is why i stopped using crickets... damn noisy little creatures from hell... I had a couple of the buggers escape while i was collecting some for feeding, i thought i had them all but i was SOOOOO wrong. The damn male managed to go up the wall and into a fire detector alarm thing and just sat in the hole in the ceiling, chirping away for a day or two till it died.... NEVER again.

 

[basin79]

Silent crickets are phenomenal. Adult males that barely make a sound.

 

[Venom1080]

Had a male get stuck inbetween my wall and window framing, couldn't find it for hours. 4am-6am. I now break off their legs when I get them, or at least as many as I can

 

[Deb60]

Had a male get stuck inbetween my wall and window framing, couldn't find it for hours. 4am-6am. I now break off their legs when I get them, or at least as many as I can

Oh yuk ! Mind you that being said we all have to cut up and smash a few heads etc for our slings and anything which is abit slow ( such as my little Eauthlus Red Sp ) lol

 

[Deb60]

Oh yuk but that being said we all have to do that , or smash a few heads when feeding our slings ( or my slow Eauthlus Red Sp )

 

[basin79]

Are silent crickets not available in the US/Europe?

 

[Deb60]

Are silent crickets not available in the US/Europe?

I'm sure I've seen them in England, but I usually feed Locust.

 

[basin79]

I'm sure I've seen them in England, but I usually feed Locust.

Yeah I live in England. They're absolutely fantastic. Bigger than banded crickets, just seem a little bit smaller than blacks.

 

[keks]

Are silent crickets not available in the US/Europe?

I've never heard of silent crickets. We only get here this noisy crickets (Acheta domesticus) or Gryllus assmilii and Gryllus bimaculatus. I don't like Gryllus, no idea why.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Silent crickets are phenomenal. Adult males that barely make a sound.

Na, the mature males are bloody noisy bastards, drove me up the wall so I'd always try to feed them off first (just dump a few in with the genic or my LP/LD and watch them have a little massacre), one hid in the skull ornament in my scorpion enclosure and wouldn't shut up all night until I clocked where he was hid and squished his head.

 

[spotropaicsav]

Little devils. This makes me think of that blaster/gun in the movie Men in Black, that was called the "the noisy cricket"....I couldv'e used it that night on that cricket! haha Glad my T did the job for me.

 

[basin79]

Na, the mature males are bloody noisy bastards, drove me up the wall so I'd always try to feed them off first (just dump a few in with the genic or my LP/LD and watch them have a little massacre), one hid in the skull ornament in my scorpion enclosure and wouldn't shut up all night until I clocked where he was hid and squished his head.

My silent cricket males barely make a sound. It's why I buy them.