Can dubias and crickets be kept in the same enclosure?

[CRX]

Just wondering this and not sure where to ask. thank you

 

[DaveM]

It is possible, but it's a bad idea for many reasons.
The crickets will feed on molting dubias (and sometimes on pinheads of their own kind too); they're nasty omnivores and sometimes cannibals. For maximum production in a cricket colony, it's worth having several different enclosures with rough age-matching (e.g. pinheads and egg-soil-with-newly-hatching-nymphs kept separate from older crickets).
Dubias are omnivores also, will eat exposed cricket eggs or even nibble on crickets to some degree.
The crickets don't live as long, smell worse, and the colony maintenance cycles are different. It's more convenient to be able to clean colonies separately according to their separate needs.
The crickets need moist substrate for egg laying; dubias don't and are best kept away from cricket eggs.
Hardened adults won't bother each other much, so maybe for a short time it wouldn't matter if you have no ready alternative, but for colony breeding/keeping this is not a good option.

 

[viper69]

Crickets eat anything

 

[darkness975]

Banded crickets are a bit better but still you can expect casualties. Unkess the numbers are so high that it doesn't matter.

 

[Albireo Wulfbooper]

...why is this in the scorpions subforum

 

[Joey Spijkers]

...why is this in the scorpions subforum

Scorpions need to eat

 

[Dr SkyTower]

I probably wouldn't... for the same reason you shouldn't keep crickets in a scorpion's enclosure for longer than a day. Crickets will eat molting insects and scorpions.