Sand for egg laying crix?

[vanquisher91]

I've seen several people mention that wet sand can be used as an egg laying substrate for crix, but I have a question about the type of sand used. I am just now starting a colony (the first batch of eggs from the 100 adults is incubating now). For the first batch I used your average moist coconut fiber as substrate and it seems to have worked well with them, but for the second container in the colony now, I used fine grain reptile sand. It's the kind that is made small enough to safely be consumed by the reptiles. I am concerned, however, that this may be too fine and the crickets may not be able to deposit eggs in it. It seems rather dense for them to lay their eggs into or even consider laying eggs into. Is any sand okay or is there a specific grain size that works best?

 

[Malcara]

Use sphagnum peat moss. Keep it damp. I had over 100 babies from just 5 dozen crickets. Unfortunately the peat moss happened to be in my emperor tank.