Thank you all. I have 3 of his sisters and 1 brother. The brother is even better looking. I would like to breed one of these males to one of my other females when they get old enough.
Danny
Mine hatch right at 10 days with a room temp at 90-93*. I only spray if the top of the bedding gets dry (maybe only once or twice the whole incubation time)
Danny
I would guess no. Even with an under tank heater the ambient temp of 30 would freeze the crickets. i had a bin in my garage with the under tank heater and it was only down to the low 50's for a few days and it killed off most of them. Granted they were only a couple weeks old at the time but i...
In my larger 50gal tubs i have about 23 egg flats and house 6000-7000 crickets and the smaller 30gal tubs i have about 12 eggs flats and house about 3000-4000 crickets. Here a a couple pics.
Danny
I still think this is way too little surface area for that many crickets. I think if you let the crickets spread out more you'll have less moisture building up, less die off, and you will have less problems. Also when crix are piled on top of eachother, they tend to start cannibalizing...
You have only 1 egg flat and 2 paper towel rolls in a bin with 3000 crix? You need a lot more surface area for them to spread out on or they are going to die off real fast and you will have a mold/smelly problem.
DAnny