Heating Crickets (advice wanted)

[Slavkleos]

I keep my crickets in a plastic 80L container and I need a way to heat them. I have a little heatpad that does not do enough to get them to breed. It's usually in the early 20s during the day. It's winter in Australia. About a quarter of the roughly 430 are mature.

 

[viper69]

Ambient heater perhaps.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I keep my crickets in a plastic 80L container and I need a way to heat them. I have a little heatpad that does not do enough to get them to breed. It's usually in the early 20s during the day. It's winter in Australia. About a quarter of the roughly 430 are mature.

Where are your room temperatures in Fahrenheit?

 

[Slavkleos]

Around the mid 70s.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Around the mid 70s.

They should still breed any idea what type of cricket?

 

[Slavkleos]

One of the common breeding species, probably house. I sourced them off CricketKing. I hear chirping but see no eggs.

 

[Brewser]

Banded
Optimal Breeding Temperature between 80 to 90 Fahrenheit / 27 to 32 Celsius.

 

[Slavkleos]

House cricket, how to I heat them? There's nothing suitable in my room to keep them at the required temperature.

 

[Slavkleos]

It's winter where I am and I've been trying to heat these guys well enough to get them breeding for about a month or two. I've used 2 heatpads but all they do is make them chirp. I checked the egg tub today and there were no eggs. It's usually around the mid 10s and sometimes gets cold at night. I don't know how warm the inside of the container is but it has a heatpad on the inside taped to a wall they all just sit on.

 

[Kada]

10 degrees is pretty warm, well warm enough, they should deposit eggs in that temp, albiet maybe only slightly slower to hatch. Maybe the egg laying material needs a change? Too dry, too wet, the rest too hungry? I find the common types of crickets are pretty willing to deposit eggs if not super cold. 10 is pretty decent, i wouldn't add heat for that if it's not long term. Unless you need pinheads asap. If it got closer to freezing, probably 5 or under) maybe a light bulb might help.

I mean for acheta for clarity.

 

[Mustafa67]

It's winter where I am and I've been trying to heat these guys well enough to get them breeding for about a month or two. I've used 2 heatpads but all they do is make them chirp. I checked the egg tub today and there were no eggs. It's usually around the mid 10s and sometimes gets cold at night. I don't know how warm the inside of the container is but it has a heatpad on the inside taped to a wall they all just sit on.

Read this, plenty of info on the forum if you search for it. https://arachnoboards.com/threads/b...ey hatch in 10 or,potato, oranges, and apples.

 

[Slavkleos]

All they do is chirp, will they lay in wheat bran?

 

[Slavkleos]

Crickets Are Breeding

I've been trying to breed these cretins since April or May. I put them in a new much smaller house and they were chirping more. This morning I checked on them and saw this female laying eggs.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I've been trying to breed these cretins since April or May. I put them in a new much smaller house and they were chirping more. This morning I checked on them and saw this female laying eggs.

Get some pics of your colony lol those are hard to breed yes. I tried once but it was a fail, more so because the container accidentally got knocked over . I keep roaches instead.

 

[Brewser]

I've been trying to breed these cretins since April or May. I put them in a new much smaller house and they were chirping more. This morning I checked on them and saw this female laying eggs.

Things are Heating up in the Cricket House.
Excellent Results for Winter Season Down Under.

 

[Slavkleos]

They were too big.