breeding crickets

[weezyboi94]

Hi guys
I've been breeding crickets for quite a while now but i still can't seem to breed them in their 100's.I believe ive done everything right with egg cartons, food , (started off with 50 crickets) and temperature.I just wanted to know if coco peat(coconut husk) is a good substrate since it is currently wht i'm using. Instead of putting egg laying containers in with the crickets , i take the females out whenever they look plump and put them in a seperate container filled with substrate.I then leave them there until they look skinny again.I breed field crickets(gryllus bimaculatus).Any ideas...?
thanks

 

[SSimsswiSS]

(started off with 50 crickets)

I'd start out with a thousand

 

[nick barta]

I'd start out with a thousand

That's Kevin, always playing the odds! Go big or go home....and very true in this case.

Die off is common, most people don't keep them warm enough, they don't do well at room temperature.

Nick

 

[Chameleon Jim]

They also stink and are noisy and they are one of the hardest feeders to raise successfully. I only raise roaches and worms, no stinky noisy crickets over here... Roaches and worms dont smell, dont make noise, are easy to breed, get larger than crickets, goes on and on and on.

The occasional Superworm gives any chitin they may be missing from lack of crickets.

 

[Todnedo]

Watch Dirty jobs tonight Mike Row is going to Ghann's cricket farm.
It's on at 9:00pm ET

 

[laurie]

That's Kevin, always playing the odds! Go big or go home....and very true in this case.

Nick

Nick that is Steve, not Kevin, and yes Steve does go big, hatching lots of pretty little chameleons.