robo mantis
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I was thinking of breeding crickets and fruit flies do you guys know how to *** them and start breeding them and for crickets how do you get places for them to lay eggs?
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You don't need to *** them. But if you want to know then the female crickets will have a long ovipositor coming out their back end. It's what they use to deposit eggs. They will also be very fat just like a mantis when they are full of eggs. To breed them I just put a dish of moist dirt into their tub. Make sure it's a few inches deep. I leave it in there for a few days. After that I put the dish into its own container with a 50 watt heat lamp about a foot above the dish. Make sure the dirt stays damp. Less than a week later you will have crickets.
No reason to *** fruit flies. Just get you some medium and mix it with water and put it into a container. Dump some flies in there and in a few days you will see maggots.
No reason to *** fruit flies. Just get you some medium and mix it with water and put it into a container. Dump some flies in there and in a few days you will see maggots.
infinity
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Fruit flies can be *encouraged* to lay if you put some apple juice or grape juice in the medium... Also, don't forget a sprinkling of yeast! - that also *really does* help - it mimics the fruit on which they would normally have laid on..
robo mantis
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can i just put like a banana in there?
Joe
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all i do is put mashed banana in the fruit fly's container and thats all, eggs are laid normally and the maggots prevent molding. all i smell in the container is yeast for some reason. and i also feed my crickets peice of banana they love it!
Joe
Joe
robo mantis
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i buy special cricket food it is cool
garbonzo13
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Cricket food I use dry milk powder and mix it with cornmeal. Thay seem to love it. I just got my first hatch of about 200 or so nymph crickets from a starter culture of about 10 adults. I tried using vegetable trimmings but it was too messy. The powder method keeps mess to a minimum. I have them setup in a 92 Qt. container. Also I use "water pillows" for water. They are fantastic and cheap. I also use the seperate egg laying dish with soil...that was good advise Rick, thanks. As soon as I put the soil dish in they were laying.lol
