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Hi everyone, I've got a 2-year-old male veiled chameleon who loooves munching on crickets. But I keep running into the same problem with them. I buy about 25 crickets at a time from the pet store, take them home, and put them in a decently sized enclosure with those little black tubes that the...

Anyone who has used crickets as feeders probably knows exactly what I’m talking about. The dreaded dead crickets smell, it doesn’t just stay contained to inside the cricket tote/bin it stinks up the whole room. I was wondering if there are any safe ways I can remove the smell or cover it up...

The cricket keeper is a fantastic little bug bin, but not so much for crickets. Get a bin like this and add ventilation areas at the red, to give chimney effect ventilation. I believe that is a 19 quart bin, which would be a decent enough size for a couple hundred crickets (using egg flats for...

I also do the pet store trip for crickets, when needed. My main feeder is grasshoppers. No sound. No smell. No water. Easy to breed. They live a long time. Very little die off.

So, I’ve been thinking lately… maybe it’s time that I start to keep crickets instead of traveling half an hour every time I need to buy some. (I live in the Midwest, so it’s hard to get shipments here! Most bugs would die in the process ☹️) For a cricket enclosure, could I keep them in some...

If you have a bad smell and lots of dead crickets something has gone terribly wrong. In my experience, crickets die off rapidly if kept in damp conditions. I keep mine dry, except for their water dish. When I give vegetables I use small amounts and I keep everything else dry. Clean and dry is...

Mind me asking where you get grasshoppers from? Don’t think I’ve seen an online shop with them

Hi all, I've got one of those cricket containers that has 4 black tubes for them to climb into for darkness / hiding. The tubes slide out for easy pouring into a feeder cup. In the container, I keep a dry paper towel with plenty of mustard greens and shaved baby carrots. I used to keep a piece...

I think it was because of low ventilation, I’m getting mesh and drilling bigger holes. I'm hoping that it helps

Hi Folks! Just seeing this thread... I too live in Florida and, as a previous northerner, am sad that I can't have Dubia Roaches in the sunshine state. Are Discoid Roaches the best alternative? Currently using crickets, but they smell and die quickly... If Discoid Roaches are the best, do you...

First, what kind of crickets do you have? Domestic crickets are the ones usually sold by pet stores and not only do they stink far worse, but they also die off quicker. Banded crickets are most definitely much much better and are available by most on line bug vendors. It’s also important to...

The ones from stores are often in bad shape and die quickly. The ones I breed myself are really hardy and much more active. I don't think there is really a way to gutload them per se but I do use organic honey and I always dust them (like most feeder insects they have a poor Ca:P ratio). The...

I keep banded crickets in a plastic tote with holes drilled in the sides, I might try the 2 tote method. Thanks!

Hi. Discoids are the way to go here in Florida. Yes, basically any insect which you’ll be feeding to your animal, you need to feed and make sure it is as healthy as possible so that it will offer maximum nutrition. Try banded crickets…they are much hardier and stink less than domestic crickets...

Ill be honest, i only grow lizards on crickets. Ant no one getting crickets as adults. Im not playing size roulette with $20-40 in crickets a month and hoping they live for 3-4 weeks when i already ordered them at good eaten size. Babies yea. order pin heads and they grow with the lizard and...

Yep that's exactly him lol "season my crickets, load the feeder and be gone!"

Ahhh I’m so panicked right now. So, I was normally cup feeding Spyro today when a piece of bark got into his cup. He thought it was a cricket and swallowed it. It was around the size of a large cricket. I’m now so scared it’s gonna block his intestines and he’s going to die. What makes it...

I’ve owned my panther for about almost a year and maybe a half? Maybe just a year (let’s put assumptions on a year) and well he used to use his tongue but no longer does, considering my husbandry after getting him was terrible it got to a point to where he sleeps too much and doesn’t use his...

I breed or grow what I can. I have colonies of discoid roaches, superworms and mealworms (I often donate mealworms to the local wildlife hospital), working on my method for waxworms. I buy & grow a few hundred silkworm eggs about once a year and let a good number become moths to provide me with...

I dont think the crickets die from lack of heat at 65F. More likely they will die if they are kept damp or dirty or without food and water. Banded crickets seem much hardier for me, too. They live an incredibly long time. most insects grow faster at higher temperature. Esp when hatching out...