Cricket breeding

[Pheonixx]

OK so i have decided to start breeding crix. I have a setup with a "moist spot" for the females to lay eggs, i have the orange cubes in a dish so they dont get moldy. If they do i can just change the dish. i have another dish of dry cricket feed. and a place for them to hide. What more can i do to make this work, if i can then i'll have pinheads to feed my slings and larger crix for the T's. I know this wont happen overnight so i may have to buy more crix. Any suggestions would be great thanks...
The candy corn...well even crix need sweets on halloween...

 

[Mad Hatter]

I'll be interested to see how this works out for you - I've considered doing this myself, I'm just to lazy to really apply myself to figuring out the setup. The enclosure looks great - thanks for the pic, it's quite informative.

I may just try this now - whenever I buy crickets, they end up either eating each other or just dying. It's so frustrating to deal with them.

 

[Randy]

i tried that a couple of times.. well maybe i am ust not good at it... i end up with a tank full of dead crix and stinkin smell.. ugh.. sometimes i just hate those crix.. these stupid crix die like nobodys business.. ugh.. good luck to u anyways!

btw, to reduce carnivourism, a few males is more than enough, more females, less males.. IME ..
Randy

 

[Mad Hatter]

btw, to reduce carnivourism, a few males is more than enough, more females, less males.. IME ..
Randy

Seriously... how do you tell the difference?!?!

 

[Pheonixx]

females have the thing stickin out their butt...


just to help with how i laid this out...
top right "dish" is filled with very wet dirt for females to lay eggs
bottom right is a ceramic dish for food chunks
bottom left is dry cricket feed

 

[Randy]

look at those crix closely, the mature females will have a little pipe thingy sticking outtta its butt.. thats for laying eggs.. if i'm not mistaken, its called.. umm opith.. ?? whatever.. just look for that pipe thing and thats a female.. and throught what i've observed, males are generally darker in colour..

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

It's called ovipositor!

greets
Bernhard

 

[RaZeDaHeLL666]

OK so i have decided to start breeding crix. I have a setup with a "moist spot" for the females to lay eggs, i have the orange cubes in a dish so they dont get moldy. If they do i can just change the dish. i have another dish of dry cricket feed. and a place for them to hide. What more can i do to make this work, if i can then i'll have pinheads to feed my slings and larger crix for the T's. I know this wont happen overnight so i may have to buy more crix. Any suggestions would be great thanks...
The candy corn...well even crix need sweets on halloween...

YOU DO ALL THAT???? HAHA I just have a tank with dirt...sliced radishes and other stuff and I throw all my pregnant crickets in there. before you know it there are babies everywhere. When you go to a petsotre and get crickets, thier already pregnant. So you can feed the males and use that females to give birth and feed them too. Dont use a water dish because the babies drown. instead mist the tank every now and then or provide juicy fruits. The seem to love oranges, pears, potato chips, radishes, carrots, etc!

 

[RaZeDaHeLL666]

Seriously... how do you tell the difference?!?!

SIMPLE, turn out the light!! Males are NOISY and the females are more smooth, they have HUGE abdomens and they have the long needle like thing sticking directly out of thier butts that they use to lay eggs. males dont have that and they are usally smaller than pregnant females!!

 

[TroyMcClureOG82]

Some people make this waaaay harder than it really is. I have hundreds of pinheads that just hatched out and this is my first attempt. All I did was take a small tupper ware dish and vaseline the top. I threw in about 20 pregnant female crickets that I bought from the petstore. I put a couple inches of moist pete at the bottom and put the tupperware in my heated T cabinet. The crix immediately started laying eggs. The next day I took all the females out and fed them to my bearded dragons. Pinheads hatched in about two weeks. I feed them oatmeal and carrots.

 

[Pheonixx]

thanks for all the tips.

Yeah i went to alot of trouble, mainly because i had crix in a tiny container before and they crapped it up real fast. maybe this way i can keep it somewhat cleaner. Not to mention i had an extra tank lying around.