1st experence with cricket having babys and perhaps a problem?!

JungleGuts

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Parasite???

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well i dont know this was cool to see for me at least. I put in a cricket into my h. spinifer tank and he usually dosnt take it for a day or 2. I looked in and saw the tinyest little white thing...at first i didnt know what it was...then i noticed it was a tiny cricket. I started looking around and i located about 8 or 9 tiny crickets. Now are they like in a larva or little egg before being born because i witnessed in really good detail, what looked to be a cricket crawling out of its little larva or w/e its called? Anyway i dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing to have them being born in my spinfer scorp tank. Do they have good chances of living? It would be nice to have them grow a little then feed to my sling. I put some cricket food in there and im keeping it heated well. ANy suggestions? should i try to relocate them info a different container or just let them live in there and grow up? btw i think theres more to be "hatched?"

about 10 mins later i noticed something....

just noticed something else to :?

in some parts of the tank(the wet soil parts) i just noticed what looks like hundreds of what looks like VERY SMALL little moving hairs...like a worm or something. There soooo small and when i focus my eyes right i can see them extending out of the dirt moving around. does this have anything to do with the crickets being born of something else?:?
 
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crashergs

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the worm thing sounds parasitic... dont worry about the crickets, they will die if you dont feed them properly
 

gagamboy

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you're in luck...

i tried to breed crickets once but i failed because i didn't have any means to incubate the eggs... i would try again some time in the future...

but you! you managed to breed them without doing it on purpose...

from where i come from, crickets are relatively hard to find... only a few petshops have them available and you have to cummute through bumper to bumper traffic to acquire them...

thats why many of us here breed our own crickets and other kinds of bugs...
 

Scythemantis

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Where did you get the soil? They could be harmless dirt-dwelling nematodes.
 

crashergs

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again parasitic= nematodes they are harmless however are parasitic species :)

to breed crickets, you need moist substrate, with warm conditions, maybe a heat pad beneath your tank.
 

gagamboy

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i agree... worms are definately parasitic... and even if they dont harm your scorp directly, they could may it undue stress...
 

konrad16660

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that is why i always feed scorp only when hungry. or you could just break the egg tubes off the back of the cricket. i had the little worms in my cricket container. they are not really healthy to be in a critters cage though. crickets like moist to lay eggs as well.
 

gagamboy

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my scorplings have a hard time killing crickets... sometimes i have to kill it for them...
 
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