Tiny black bugs in my Curly Hair Enclosure!!

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What are these and what do I do? they kinda look like tiny tiny crickets. There are about as big as pins head.
I never seen anything like this before, can someone confirm if these are tiny baby crickets? and I should just leave everything alone and let them die off?

 

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T in there farming crickets :lol: Probably be hungry about the time they are full grown...
 
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jbooth said:
T in there farming crickets :lol: Probably be hungry about the time they are full grown...
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so you can confirm these are cricekts? i never seen them this small and why are they black?
 
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Zigma said:
What are these and what do I do? they kinda look like tiny tiny crickets. There are about as big as pins head.
I never seen anything like this before, can someone confirm if these are tiny baby crickets? and I should just leave everything alone and let them die off?

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I have no idea how those would of got in your enclosure unless you left a gravid female cricket in there too long and it laid eggs.

Leaving them in as they do look like baby crickets pose a threat to a molting T.

I say rehouse and don't leave feeders in more than a day. Remove anything after a day bolus or uneaten prey.
 
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Crickets.

Crickets lay their eggs in soil. So they don't tend to multiply if kept in plastic containers with no substrate.

I've dropped crickets in my T enclosures and seconds after they hit the soil, immediately stabbing ovipositor into soil and doing its deed. This is why I tend to remove them as quick as possible if they are not eaten, but can still happen from time to time.
 
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100% baby crickets. If you've fed a female cricket the only way they lay eggs in in soil. They deposite the young in moist or loose soil.

I had the same thing happen very recently. I left a female in with one of my Scorps and I looked in and was like WHAT THE F!?!?! lol so ya. Baby crickets.
 
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Veno Manus said:
100% baby crickets. If you've fed a female cricket the only way they lay eggs in in soil. They deposite the young in moist or loose soil.

I had the same thing happen very recently. I left a female in with one of my Scorps and I looked in and was like WHAT THE F!?!?! lol so ya. Baby crickets.
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I put in a small shallow water dish in and they seem to be drowning themselves now.
 

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They are always up to something. But I have like 16 or so lower instars and they eat them up!
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How did you get them out? Also I definitely highly recommend giving your T a ping pong ball. My Jeff does like to roll it around, and that how I found the baby crickets so fast. There was 2 on his ball.
 

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That's interesting. Behavior is noted in a lot of other animals.

Have you noticed a play-pleasure correlation or is the pingpong ball merely an annoyance that T cannot get rid of?
 
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That's so interesting. Wonder if it's trying to eat it, play, or use it to decorate the burrow.
 
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That is fricken awesome! Lol

Zigma said:
How did you get them out? Also I definitely highly recommend giving your T a ping pong ball. My Jeff does like to roll it around, and that how I found the baby crickets so fast. There was 2 on his ball.
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Zigma said:
How did you get them out? Also I definitely highly recommend giving your T a ping pong ball. My Jeff does like to roll it around, and that how I found the baby crickets so fast. There was 2 on his ball.
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Interesting.......quite sometime ago a keeper with a T. blondi if I remember right recorded it picking up and dropping a ping pong over and over.

Considering the ping pong ball had baby crickets all over it I wonder if it's sensing possible prey residue, I don't know. I didn't see it using it's fangs at all. It generally looks like it's exploring it.

I can tell you what my A. geniculata would do to it. It would absolutely destroy it like it did it's synthetic moss rock then threw it across it's enclosure.

I tried to remove the torn up moss rock with tongs while it held onto it and wouldn't let go.

Later on I opened the enclosure then cupped the T. I removed the moss rock and then had to pick all the Styrofoam pieces up strewn all over the enclosure that came from the inside of it, what a mess.

All my terrestrials love those moss rocks to stand on. My genic just destroyed it then wanted to mess with it as I wouldn't call it playing with it.
 
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