Re: Female Crickets

[Starving1artist]

Yesterday when I went to feed my 2 girls their crickets I pitched in a female cricket to each of them. (Female crickets have a long spike that they deposit their eggs with into the soil). Right away the female crickets started sending their spikes into the soil and I don`t want wee crickets hatching in my "T`s" tanks so I recaught them, took a pair of scissors and snipped off the spike, removed a bit of the soil where the crickets deposited eggs and gave them back to the girls who ate them.

Just thought I`d pass this hint on to those of you who happen to have pinheads showing up in your "T`s" tank...Starving

 

[edesign]

if your substrate is dry enough you don't need to worry about having pinhead crickets hatch out.

 

[Bloodletting]

You'll know in 30 days...

 

[Ronj]

They can't swim very good either.

 

[Starving1artist]

My goldfish like the fact thay have a hard time treading water! An easy tasty meal!

 

[Varden]

if your substrate is dry enough you don't need to worry about having pinhead crickets hatch out.

Not true. I've watched female crickets poking their butts into bone dry substrate before. I don't know if the eggs will hatch without moisture, but they will lay them.

 

[Starving1artist]

That`s what I`m wondering about the soil being dry but humidity being high still gives the eggs a condition to hatch. I`m still going to "snip" before I feed!...Starving

 

[Beccas_824]

Oh, if you don't have scissors handy you can always bend the long stick like thing. This will also prevent them from being able to lay eggs. Also, with my "plumb' looking female crickets, i tend to feed them to my T's with very good appetites so the circk gets gobbled up idmediately and don't have time to lay their offsprings.

 

[edesign]

Not true. I've watched female crickets poking their butts into bone dry substrate before. I don't know if the eggs will hatch without moisture, but they will lay them.

ya, but i could care less if they lay eggs if they don't hatch. I have been throwing crickets in my T tanks without any cricket "trimming" of varying moistures (most are pretty dry) for almost a year now and have had zero cricket hatchings. The only problem I have is finding cricket parts before they mold if the tank is at all humid.

dry substrate = no baby crickets

 

[Socrates]

Crickets manage to deposit their eggs right around the water dish. And they WILL hatch in that area, even if your substrate is bone dry - it's happened to me a few times.

Cutting off their ovipositor won't stop them from laying eggs, but they won't be as deep in the substrate as with it.

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Wendy
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[edesign]

i don't generally use water dishes though...and then it depends if you overfill it or not i s'pose. I overfill in my A. seemani's tank once in a while, no problems there...i'd mention the L. parahybana but not much stays alive long enough to do anything in there N. chromatus...same as A. seemani. Maybe i've been lucky

 

[dustypa]

i put a container with dirt in the crickets cage, and that solved the problem with them laying eggs in the Ts tank, and im getting healtheir pinheads then buyin them from the petstore for my slings

 

[agentbsmithi]

ya, but i could care less if they lay eggs if they don't hatch. I have been throwing crickets in my T tanks without any cricket "trimming" of varying moistures (most are pretty dry) for almost a year now and have had zero cricket hatchings. The only problem I have is finding cricket parts before they mold if the tank is at all humid.

dry substrate = no baby crickets

You know whats funny about that is I thought it would never happen to me but it did, and in bone dry bed a beast. I didnt think the eggs would hatch till I saw baby crickets all over the place. They all died though, they drowned. ;P

also, this certain species affected was a. seemani. I wish I had your luck.

 

[agentbsmithi]

oh yeah, like socrates said, they were right around its water dish.

 

[jojobear]

if your substrate is dry enough you don't need to worry about having pinhead crickets hatch out.

I agree. I could never get cricket eggs to hatch when I was trying to raise them. Which is the main reason I went to roaches. So don't worry about it.

 

[Kizzywhizzy]

I read that even if you snip the spike off that they can still lay the eggs

 

[SpiderZone2]

feeder crickets

I have been feeding crickets to my animals for many years and have never had any eggs hatch. Maybe I had the right conditions too, but I do keep water dishes in several of my T's because they need them and use them. I still have never ever found any little pin heads. But maybe cause the T's snatch them up so quickly. But even if some have not eaten them by the next time I feed them which usually is a couple of days, I still have never found any pinheads. My oldest T's is a L. Parahybana and she is 10 years old and as of her last molt she is 8 and a half inches.

...........Feed them well and they will grow !!!......