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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...

I don’t keep crickets because of their stench. Once a week-I go to the local pet stores around me for crickets. Keep a month of supply of Dubia Roaches and other insects. 😆

hii!! update: hes been doing really well. but im having some issues with feeding… ive given him buffalo worms and now he wont want his crickets anymore, nor fruit flies😅 ive tried holding a cricket and a worm together so he’ll get both but he just gets the worm, any ideas how to get him to eat...

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...

I was giving mine dubias but he started refusing to eat them about a month ago. Otherwise I would 100% stick with roaches

Banded crickets are much hardier and less stinky than domestic crickets.

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...

I had tried keeping my roaches in a clean bin and all of the frass was as disgusting as crickets. That’s why I keep them bioactively now. Sifting thru monthly for the nymphs is time consuming but I have the time. If I were you, I would try getting a second roach bin and instead of cleaning...

Yay! 🥳 That’s such wonderful news! Keep doing as you’re doing. 💗

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

Make sure there’s plenty of air flow. Here’s my two totes. I reused the vents that Josh’s Frogs had on the shipping boxes for my crickets and hot glued screen too. In between ‘cleaning’ them, I will sometimes leave the lids half off. This is the inside - you’d never tell that this was...

Wow. Odd! Are you certain they’re crickets? Regardless, go thru and remove all the roaches and put them in a clean bin without soil and new egg flats. You’ll have to look super carefully for nymphs. Toss the old soil and bin outside. If you want to keep the bin, just a good soap and water...

confident their crickets. I don't rly know much about roaches, I thought they needed dirt to like burrow and stuff? anyway thanks for the advice, ill get on that.

Hey guys, sorry I’ve been posting so much. I’ve been wondering what products I could gutload my crickets with. I keep my crickets outside in a 20 gallon tank. Whenever I put leafy greens or any normal gutloading food in their cage, lots of ants get in their enclosure. But, with the store diet...

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 am really considering it now. With roaches, though, I'd be afraid of developing allergies. I've read quite a bit of people that deal with them frequently getting terribly allergic and wouldn't want to risk cutting out such a good feeder! Silkworms do sound trickier with the diapause their eggs...

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

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...

This could get quite long, but I’ll try to be brief. I have 10 insectivores, so do things on a larger scale, but that really shouldn’t matter. I do not gut load. I do keep my bugs well fed so they are healthy and nutritious. Crickets kept in a very large bin with ventilation added to the sides...