1k crickets and Fruit flies coming on wednesday!

[kokom05lb]

I have a a order of 1k crickets and 1 tube of fruit flies coming from Flukers.com on Wednesday. But I have a question! I have a 10g fish tank I throw my crickets in now (which is about 200 crickets I go though in a 15 day period). I have no escapees either but 200 compared to 1000, there may be some escapees I would think. So my question is: Should I split 500/500 to 2 different cages?
Also the fruit flies: How many should I let lose in Angel's and Ringo's cage at a time?

On another note: This morning when I was feeding Angel I had a cricket on the tongs and it caught her eye. She aimed for it but unfortunately the cricket wiggled free. Guess she's starting to trust me, YAY

 

[drcrossfire]

I have a a order of 1k crickets and 1 tube of fruit flies coming from Flukers.com on Wednesday. But I have a question! I have a 10g fish tank I throw my crickets in now (which is about 200 crickets I go though in a 15 day period). I have no escapees either but 200 compared to 1000, there may be some escapees I would think. So my question is: Should I split 500/500 to 2 different cages?
Also the fruit flies: How many should I let lose in Angel's and Ringo's cage at a time?

On another note: This morning when I was feeding Angel I had a cricket on the tongs and it caught her eye. She aimed for it but unfortunately the cricket wiggled free. Guess she's starting to trust me, YAY

i keep 1000 crickets in a 10 gallon all the time. minimal escapees (I think its only the ones i accidenly drop) -- corn cob on the bottom helps so that the dead ones dont stick to the bottom and they aren't running around in their poop. I keep a few paper towel rolls in there and the egg crate that comes with the crickets.

crickets are dumb and will suffocate each other, so it helps to every day/other day shake your tubes and crate so the ones stuck in the middle can get out and eat.

 

[kokom05lb]

ok I can do that... Also on making the feeder cup for my custom cage what should i use? TIA

 

[drcrossfire]

I just use a plastic deli cup that i have hooked on with paper clips...

you want it to be something you can easily take out and clean. I have been tempted to switch to a bird seed cup:

http://www.google.com/products/cata...=X&ei=itp5T9q9JebY0QH8tt2wDQ&ved=0CJEBEPICMAQ

just needs to be deep enough that stuff cant get out-

I have seen a lot of creative feed cups. So you may want to browse around.

 

[kokom05lb]

Woops!

Well my crickets are suppose to be in sometime this afternoon. So in preparations of their arrival I figured I'd mix some bug burger and clean the 10 gallon tank. Well, I dont know what i was thinking and dumped the whole container (which was about half) into the microwave dish and poured water in it. Then I looked and I was like "OMG! WTF did I just do!"

On the bright side I dont have to prepare any for next month!

 

[kokom05lb]

Crickets are here!

So my crickets arrived. Opened the box to find little black worm things... Idk what they are but they are there. I ordered the 3 week old crickets and some of them our huge! Anyways I threw some bug burger in there and all 6 piles are cover with a blanket of crickets! Angel was watching me the whole time

 

[mcleodschams]

i believe they will keep your bin clean (eat all the poop) not 100% but i think thats what they are i heard about them on here so some one will probably be able to tell you what they ar ebetter