Is It OK Not to Take Away Baby Crickets?

[sweetmisery]

Just leave them there with the rest of the colony? As of what crickets I got, I dont know the scientific name, its just brown and wingless. A local cricket here in the Philippines.

 

[Choobaine]

I dunno about your species but you do it in general because bugs have never been the maternal type, in fact sometimes they are quite the opposite, if you don't value them see what happens, if you want them all alive I'd seperate them.

 

[sweetmisery]

Do you feed same food for baby crickets? And how do you put water to them without them drowning... they seem too small. Sorry Im just new in all this.

 

[Choobaine]

hey it's ok to ask! that's how you learn

Now... yes normally crickets eat all the same things. Don't put too much in though for the babies, cuz they can't eat all that much and might get stuck to anything wet (it doesn't happen a lot but when it does it's annoying). Take a little lid of a soda bottle and fill it tightly with sponge or cotton wool and dampen it. They won't get cought in it but can drink off it's surface. I have a massive cricket setup... hundreds and hundreds! Little boxes for babies and my entire Dermestid colony is in the same box cleaning them I like crickets.

 

[sweetmisery]

Well I guess Im lucky to have you run in my thread here. lol

So now, I put a pint with cocopeat in it, and now got baby crickets, I seperate it right? So does that mean I have to put a new pint to replace it everytime there are babies?! Or just take away the small ones from the pint(dont know how), then return it?

APPRECIATE YOUR HELP!

 

[Choobaine]

are your crickets laying in the substrate or do you have a container for it? I usually let them lay into a container with damp soil or cotton wool and keep it seperate so they hatch seperately too. If they are all together it's going to be some hastle to get them seperated!

 

[sweetmisery]

I put damp soil in a container. Next thing I know, there are baby crix. Too late for this batch cuz its been 3 days and I see them everywhere in the area.

Anyway how can I tell if there are eggs? Cant seem to see it cuz the females dig it inside the soil.

 

[Choobaine]

hmm see that's the problem. I've only had substrate they won't lay in and one area to lay. I dunno what to do in that case. If you keep your crickets REALLY well fed they won't eat each other. Give it a go! Maybe you wont have to move them at all. But it's still difficult to do.

 

[sweetmisery]

But where do you put the substrate? In a tub or something? Or just the ground?

 

[Choobaine]

I put little shavings into a big heated tank with little pots of laying ground here and there. What you put in it is up to you cuz it's a different species. They seem to be doing well as it is

 

[sweetmisery]

Ah I see. Well wish me luck. lol. I think Ill check if they will do fine without transfering. Cuz where I bought this from, the breeder said he used to seperate the young ones, but not anymore cuz he is busy... yet they seem to be doing well.

 

[Choobaine]

well then could I see pictures? I like pictures! And I wish you the bestest of luck! Crickets are tons of fun ^^

 

[Louise E. Rothstein]

Most cricket species need dry shelter. Moist drinking (and/or egg-laying) "substrates" should be offered in separate containers that the crickets can get into and out of.

Wetland species need moist substrate.
If you put wetland species in dry "shelter" they tend to "haunt" their
drinker-constantly crowding there-and avoiding dry "shelter."

If this occurs you should switch to moist substrate.
It may,however,be necessary to change it; perhaps between broods.
When moist materials are used in a confined space bacterial buildup,fungal infestations,or even noxious "blooms" of mites may create some serious
problems if no precautions are taken.

Your crickets' reactions will let you know whether they like it dry.
Although crickets can't talk they do vote with their feet.

 

[cacoseraph]

Although crickets can't talk they do vote with their feet.

that is an AWESOME quote! i love it