If you think this is actually true, you'll never break away from the terrible creatures. Blatta lateralis, Blaptica dubia, mealworms, superworms, etc. are all better and easier, if you ask me.
smaller then the T in question
I mean i just find crickets easier becuase they dont burrow. not to mention I think its easy for people living with others to be able to get away with crickets then trying to explain why there is a tank full roaches in the house. spider are one thing people have a problem with dealing, but roaches are on a whole another level
A tarantula is a wild animal fully capable of digging up its own prey. Besides, the roach has to come out at SOME point. Crickets can infest your house, are noisy and smelly. Anyone whose housemates think that's better than silent,odorless roaches who cannot infest your house likely thinks so because the person with the bugs isn't trying to educate them: Roaches are only a whole other level if you aren't making enough of an effort to educate the people you live with.
Unless you have a very warm, filthy house with food laying around everywhere and fruit/water crystals all over, they won't survive. These are tropical roaches. Crickets find it much easier to reproduce in your house.
I do the same thing too! Just recently I left a cricket in one of my Ts tanks over night, the next morning it still hadn't been eaten. I NEARLY left it in there for the rest of the day, but instead decided to take it out. It's just as well cause my T moulted that same day, and if I'd left it in he'd be dead.
What species of crickets are you using? If it's the noise that bothers you i suggest to try the G. assimilis (if avaible where you live). That species is almost noiseless compared to the A. domesticus and the G. bimaculatus (the noisiest one).
Sounds AMAZING! Noiseless crickets! haha However were I live the place to get crickets is a bird market over an hour from my apartment and to them they're all just 'crickets,' or more specifically '跳虫子' But I just realised I could google images of those species and try and find a match! Thanks heaps!! =DWhat species of crickets are you using? If it's the noise that bothers you i suggest to try the G. assimilis (if avaible where you live). That species is almost noiseless compared to the A. domesticus and the G. bimaculatus (the noisiest one).
Assimilis+towel should solve your problem
Dubia also are essentially incapable of climbing smooth glass or plastic -- including aquariums, tupperware, and tall deli cups, so as long as they're kept in an appropriately tall container, they can't get out at all. And as was mentioned, they're tropical and won't breed without heat, so even the stray escapee won't breed in the average house.
I'd be very, VERY reluctant to suggest this to someone that just lost a T to cricket aggression. G. assimils ("black crickets" "super crickets" or "Jamican field crickets" are hands down THE most aggressive cricket species in the trade today. While they're no match for a healthy, non-moulting T and their fangs, a young, fragile, or freshly moulted spider is going to be made short work of by these little terrors. They're MUCH more aggressive and have MUCH stronger jaws than A domesticus ("common brown house crickets").What species of crickets are you using? If it's the noise that bothers you i suggest to try the G. assimilis (if avaible where you live). That species is almost noiseless compared to the A. domesticus and the G. bimaculatus (the noisiest one).
Assimilis+towel should solve your problem
