Baby Crickets

[Diggy415]

I have a 10 gallon with cricket eggs and mealworm beetles and thus i have baby crickets and mealworms galore, do i feed the crickets the same powder stuff i do the adults? ill blend up fishfood and oats too. They are soooooo cute. I have pic's of both if you wish.

 

[TalonAWD]

Yes. Feed them the same stuff. Powder is the best way since they are soo small. I feed mine fish flakes and Gel water that I make. (I have the crystals)

 

[echostatic]

as strange as it sounds, i find baby crickets to be cute too... then they grow up -.- lol

 

[inverts]

as strange as it sounds, i find baby crickets to be cute too... then they grow up -.- lol

Crickets are not that bad. :liar: They just smell terrible and die all the time.

 

[echostatic]

they dont smell too bad if you keep their container clean. i have mine in a medium KK on a pedistal next to my bed like 2 feet from my head and i dont notice them.

 

[inverts]

You are right, the babies do not smell that bad; but I have had an enclosure full of adult crickets that I kept clean but there was still a noticeable odor.

 

[Diggy415]

i was capturing crickets to my T's and i notice baby crickets in some of the T cages too, how neato! lol

 

[inverts]

Almost any enclosure that has had a female cricket inside and contains moist substrate will soon contain pinheads.

 

[echostatic]

You are right, the babies do not smell that bad; but I have had an enclosure full of adult crickets that I kept clean but there was still a noticeable odor.

i keep adults in it and i cant smell it unless my nose is over the lid. of course im only keeping 30 at a time...

 

[inverts]

The odor is somewhat contained to the area around the crickets and their enclosure, but it is still noticeable to me. I normally keep groups larger than 30 adults, so the odor is obviously going to be worse since there are more crickets producing waste products and dying.

 

[clear]

I hope you dont have the mealworms and crickets together do you? Crickets like to chew on other animals so your probly losing mealworms daily.

 

[Diggy415]

the crickets are just hatched and the mealworms are 1/4" and hard shelled so crickets can't eat them i was thinking, but yes both together, but ill seperate them tonight incase. Plenty of food and water too,

 

[laidback383]

i would not keep the in the same container crickets can eat thru a cardboard box. for anyone looking i sell crickets and meal worms. meal worms have been in big demand with bluebird season so im almost out and my supplier has not had any in weeks.

 

[antbebo]

I raise crickets to feed to my spiders and scorps. I have them in a sterilite container on rabbit food pellets. It is not bad if you don't mind the mild smell of alfalfa. This method works well if you don't want babies. I add a container of moist sand when I want to let them lay eggs.