Keeping crickets lend a hand?
hi, i was wondering about keeping crickets
any one know any web sites on keeping cricket
can they be keeped contained by a glass tank?
or have to be kept within a plastic
my glass tank has exposure to air!
help please
Answers: Breeding crickets is quite simple. What you want to do first is to get give or take a few 30-50 adult crickets. Almost all pet shops carry these. Then put them contained by a large cage, preferably about 15x30 inches or so. To increace cricket growth, place a warmth lamp above the cage. And most importantly of all, place some food and wet (take a paper towel and soak it in water) in nearby. Make sure you put some obstacles in within (such as egg cartons, paper towel rolls, or a kleenex box) so they can have some room to move around. Get a lid of a peanut butter jar (or a lid of that size) and saturate it with dirt. Place the lid of dirt in the cage and start out it in for 1 day(and 1 day only, whether you leave it in longer, other crickets will eat the eggs surrounded by the dirt). Female crickets will lay their eggs in the dirt. Once a day has passed, embezzle the lid out and place it in a seperate cage. Mist the dirt with sea once or twice a day. The eggs in the dirt will hatch in almost 1 week or so. Raise these crickets the same way as described above. Raising crickets yourself can save you some money contained by the long run. You can repeat this cycle and get hundreds of crickets, or maybe even thousands! This concludes how to breed crickets.
