Best solution? Feels bad

[codicez]

Hi guys! I got small problem/question that Iwould like to ask if anyone had same experience as mine...

I bought a medium size brown/silent cricket pack month ago to feed my Juvenile Gbb... was completly fine the silent part of them but recently my Gbb went in premolt, approx 2 weeks ago, since then she refuse meal and just bein passive in her den... now few medium cricket are growing and grow some wings which they use to chirp, Is not loud and is not constant but is just annoying sound...
I catch few of them and cut of the end part of the wing to stop them to chirp... Is that something better I could do? I feel bit bad but I don't know if there is anything else I can do to keep them completly quite as they were before... I wish I could give them to my GBB but as I say she/he seems in premolt so I would like to know if someone has a better solution to keep them silent

 

[Nightstalker47]

Hi guys! I got small problem/question that Iwould like to ask if anyone had same experience as mine...

I bought a medium size brown/silent cricket pack month ago to feed my Juvenile Gbb... was completly fine the silent part of them but recently my Gbb went in premolt, approx 2 weeks ago, since then she refuse meal and just bein passive in her den... now few medium cricket are growing and grow some wings which they use to chirp, Is not loud and is not constant but is just annoying sound...
I catch few of them and cut of the end part of the wing to stop them to chirp... Is that something better I could do? I feel bit bad but I don't know if there is anything else I can do to keep them completly quite as they were before... I wish I could give them to my GBB but as I say she/he seems in premolt so I would like to know if someone has a better solution to keep them silent

Simplest remedy would be to buy more spiders.

Your fighting an uphill battle if you expect to clip off cricket wings as you go lol.

 

[MetalMan2004]

Thats why I switched to superworms. Even with a good amount of spiders the “silent” crickets started to chirp as they grew up and I couldn’t keep up. All my spiders are in my bedroom and I got really tired of being woken up at 2am by an uneaten cricket. Its not an ideal situation being groggy and looking through poec cages trying to find a chirper.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

This is why I stopped using them as feeders, it drove me (even more) bloody mental.

It's just the mature males that chirp (the adults that don't have an ovipositor) so you won't have to clip all of them.

The best solutions would be either to get more tarantulas or stop using them as feeders, red runners are easy to get hold of and elicit the same feeding response.

 

[Belegnole]

Or, get used to it....

I realized that I enjoyed hearing crickets when I was outside enjoying myself. It's something that I expected to hear and I didn't have an issue. When I was inside it made me batty and I switched to immature crickets for a while. Then I got a batch that matured overnight on me. Once again I was loosing my mind, until I thought about how when say I was camping the sound lulled me to sleep. Once I switched the concept of hearing crickets inside from "wrong" in my mind to "ok" things got better.

Plus the evil side of me just lets them know that the big ones are going to get used first....

 

[Garth Vader]

Yeah I kinda like the cricket sound. What I do not like is the smell.

 

[Venom1080]

I hate that noise. They get thrown to any spider I have or crushed.

I used to enjoy the sound actually, but it's been a long time since I slept with a open window..

 

[Belegnole]

Yeah I kinda like the cricket sound. What I do not like is the smell.

Clean, and clean often.

 

[Garth Vader]

Clean, and clean often.

Oh my gosh. Believe me, I do. I spend more time dealing with the cricks than my Ts, that is for sure.

 

[Belegnole]

Oh my gosh. Believe me, I do. I spend more time dealing with the cricks than my Ts, that is for sure.

lol, it was the best thing I could come up with...

yes they smell

 

[Garth Vader]

lol, it was the best thing I could come up with...

yes they smell

I could just get noseplugs and wear them all the time.

Or just accept it.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Yeah I kinda like the cricket sound. What I do not like is the smell.

I used to clean mine out once a fortnight and the smell was only marginally worse than the smell produced by my lat colony (yes, those do actually smell despite what everyone says).

The noise was unbearable though, loud/high pitched noises irk me and I'm a really light sleeper unless I'm drunk.

 

[chanda]

The noise doesn't bother me. I actually find it kind of relaxing - unless one of the dang things has escaped and is underneath the fridge or the dishwasher or something!

 

[codicez]

Simplest remedy would be to buy more spiders.

Your fighting an uphill battle if you expect to clip off cricket wings as you go lol.

Yeah I will go on sunday to the Seas here in UK I will get probably 1 more

Clean, and clean often.

Yeah I noticed that smell is not a problem if I often clean them the box with their poop and clean they food dishesh, I do much more maintenance for the cricket than for the Ts ...

This is why I stopped using them as feeders, it drove me (even more) bloody mental.

It's just the mature males that chirp (the adults that don't have an ovipositor) so you won't have to clip all of them.

The best solutions would be either to get more tarantulas or stop using them as feeders, red runners are easy to get hold of and elicit the same feeding response.

How red runners should be kept? Can I keep them in a same cricket pen(without cricket of course) ? Do they eat some food as cricket? I got the gel and some Bug Grub which I'm giving to the cricket...
Many thanks

 

[Rittdk01]

Get meal or super worms. I get crickets once in awhile and immediately feed them to my t's. They smell like pee right out of the bag, make a bunch of noise and are more trouble than my tarantulas to keep alive.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

How red runners should be kept? Can I keep them in a same cricket pen(without cricket of course) ? Do they eat some food as cricket? I got the gel and some Bug Grub which I'm giving to the cricket...
Many thanks

Yeah, that should be fine, you could probably get a hold of some at SEAS.

 

[codicez]

Sorry for my ignorance.. But who is/are the singer ?

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Sorry for my ignorance.. But who is/are the singer ?

The ones that look like this are females, males don't have that long tube sticking out of the abdomen, clip the ones that don't have the long tube.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

The ones that look like this are females, males don't have that long tube sticking out of the abdomen, clip the ones that don't have the long tube.

Just in case that's not clear, these are the males (as far as I can tell)

 

[Chris LXXIX]

The noise doesn't bother me. I actually find it kind of relaxing - unless one of the dang things has escaped and is underneath the fridge or the dishwasher or something!

Ah ah happened to me as well.

I'm happy to hear their 'chant': to think that there's among us stressed rich managers (to the point of kill someone, a la Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down') that pay for relax themselves a weekend in those country little 'bed and breakfast' listening to nature sounds, and me, lucky one, 24/7 nurtured by those...