Cricket and mites?

winwin

Arachnoknight
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Hey guys! I've been keeping a few crickets for food for my slings and from 50 they are down to around 10 because they are all fed to my slings, they seem to be rather dirty compared to roaches but the thing is right now I can see so many things crawling inside, not sure if they are mites because they seem to be bigger than what's inside my Liocheles Australasiae's container. A lot bigger. Does anyone have any idea what those are?
 

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Arachnobaron
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I have these small white things in my cricket tank. They sort of look like tiny isopods. There's a ton of them in there too. I'm not sure if they feed on fungus, cricket food, or dead crickets (or all of those things). They don't appear to be harmful at all (and they probably do some cleaning up if they do in fact eat dead cricks), so I haven't done anything about getting rid of them.
 

winwin

Arachnoknight
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I have these small white things in my cricket tank. They sort of look like tiny isopods. There's a ton of them in there too. I'm not sure if they feed on fungus, cricket food, or dead crickets (or all of those things). They don't appear to be harmful at all (and they probably do some cleaning up if they do in fact eat dead cricks), so I haven't done anything about getting rid of them.
Yeah I think we are talking about the same thing. It's a lot bigger than other mites but I don't think it's causing anything bad. Crickets are pretty messy, I think after this batch is done I'm gonna stick with roaches and superworms.
 
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