raising crickets

[nebrakacinese]

I did a search on this and could'nt find anything,is it possible to raise your own crickets,I live in an apartment so I don/t want nothing too smelly,the crickets close by are really pricey,just considering,I realize i'd probably need a dark tupperware tote for this

 

[patrickfraser]

If "stinky" isn't for you, neither are crickets. Go with dubia roaches.

 

[nebrakacinese]

Got ya

 

[Krissim Klaw]

If "stinky" isn't for you, neither are crickets. Go with dubia roaches.

My crickets don't stink. :huh:

 

[patrickfraser]

I'm just going with what I have read. :blush: I steered clear from the get go after doing some reading. Search around and see what's out there for different feeders and decide what's best. You'll get lot of differing views.

 

[happy1892]

Crickets breed very fast. Feed them good stuff and do not let them eat a rotting body! I would keep both roaches and crickets to feed. Here are videos on how to breed them. I just keep moist peat moss and food in the container with fat adult females and they breed like crazy but not anymore, for some reason just about all of them died!

http://www.youtube.com/results?client=safari&rls=en&q=how+to+breed+crickets&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w1

 

[nebrakacinese]

I think I may try crickets,see what goes,hopefully will have alot of little hungry chinese by then,I really don't have to breed them,in a wooden lot about 2 blocks away there alot of them,just go get an ooth,incidently,I've noticed that the ooths you pickup outside are generally healther than the ones in the fridge,I have a theory I'm gonna try this winter

 

[happy1892]

I've noticed that the ooths you pickup outside are generally healther than the ones in the fridge,I have a theory I'm gonna try this winter

I do not know about that! Maybe..... How many oothecae have you had hatched?

 

[nebrakacinese]

About a dozen,I usually put up 90 to 100 cups,number of nymps 2 to 5 a cup,in a fridge I always lay them on their side,well their laid exit down,just gonna lay them that way in the fridge,keep records and see

 

[nebrakacinese]

do this with wild ooths too

 

[sueb4653]

Crickets chew out of their enclosures I found out the hard way nline2long: