Cricket care

[ReneeScooter2022]

I know this is more for spiders and scorpions but I have a real problem. I’m trying to raise feeder crickets and have followed all suggestions from people who I found online but I can’t see me to keep them alive. I have coconut substrate down, an extra bowl for breeding. I feed them orange cubes and flukers cricket food. They also get gel water. I clean the habitat every day to prevent ammonia problem. i have a heating pad on low beside the habit and mist down the habitat everyday. I watch thier food and water everyday to make sure it isn’t dirty. This is all I’ve been told and I still get dead ones everyday and they are not breeding. What am I doing wrong?

 

[fcat]

Do you have any pictures of your setup you could share?

Do the crickets seem healthy before dying or so you just find many dead?

What temps are you maintaining?

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Ditch the zero and get with a hero.
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[fcat]

Also, have you seen a baby cricket? Smol. I chased down what I was certain was a long distance running phorid fly until I realized it's antennae were longer than it's body. Besides cute, they are tiny. I almost killed the poor thing. You get a real close look?

 

[Introvertebrate]

I know this is more for spiders and scorpions but I have a real problem. I’m trying to raise feeder crickets and have followed all suggestions from people who I found online but I can’t see me to keep them alive. I have coconut substrate down, an extra bowl for breeding. I feed them orange cubes and flukers cricket food. They also get gel water. I clean the habitat every day to prevent ammonia problem. i have a heating pad on low beside the habit and mist down the habitat everyday. I watch thier food and water everyday to make sure it isn’t dirty. This is all I’ve been told and I still get dead ones everyday and they are not breeding. What am I doing wrong?

The first generation will die off pretty quickly, but long enough to lay eggs. I have to leave the substrate in there for at least a week, before I see my first pinhead. At that point, I take the substrate container out, so the adults won't eat the pinheads.