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I've been buying a dozen small brown crickets and putting them in a tamale jar with air holes punched in the top. I put a small slice of banana in, which they love. I try to change it often, but when I forget, it ferments, and the alcohol kills the crickets. Not an altogether unpleasant way to go.
How do you keep a few crickets without them dying, and how do you make sure they have enough food and water, which is ultimately better for the spider?
How do you keep a few crickets without them dying, and how do you make sure they have enough food and water, which is ultimately better for the spider?
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) I use egg flats as places for them to climb. As food I use puppy chow that has been ground up in a blender - it is full of all sorts of vitamens and minerals, they love it. I give them leafs of Romaine lettuce as a water source and additional food. Occassionally I will give them peeled sliced apples as well. I have never used cricket bites or cricket waterers. I regularly raise my pinheads to adults with this setup and I have recently started raising my own pinheads by placing a shallow dish of tamped down moist peat moss in with adults for a week then I move it to it's own plastic tote and in about 10 to 15 days I have more pinheads.