Cricket Cage?

[Chamified]

Hi I keep my crickets in a critter keeper about 3 gallons and i have about a 100 small crickets in there and the only way to clean the cage is by dumping them into a bucket cleaning the cage and hand picking the 100 crickets left is there a better or maybe a more convinient way of doing this? Thanks

 

[ChamFreak]

bigger critter cage, or glass cage. Use paper towel cardboard tube it helps heaps! I also did the cleaning in the bath tub in case some escaped.

 

[CoppellChameleons]

Tubs

Hey, we breed and found the easiest thing to do is to get a 5-10 gallon tub like they sell at wall mart (rubermaid). They cost about 5-8 bucks. Use a razor and cut out large square sides on all 4 sides and then get some roll mesh (home depot) cut that to fit the cut areas. hot glue it on. Also cut the top and vwala you have an easy to clean cricket tub. Just put the cricket quencher, cricket food, fish flakes and whatnot on old jar lids (We use baby formula plastic lids) then throw in some toilet paper rolls (makes for easy transfer to cham cage. All you have to do to clean is wet some paper towels and shove the crickets aside and wipe up their waste residue. pic attached of 2 different sizes.

 

[CoppellChameleons]

More info

Also you do need proper ventilation for crickets or they die.They need 4 wall ventilation. When they die in enclosed containers (aquariums, etc.) they let out poison vapor that kills off the other crickets. And in the containers is egg crates that you see. Good for cricket cover and burrowing. Hope this helps.

 

[Mr Wilson]

When you guys use these home made cricket keepers, how do you get a few out at a time to feed your chams? We currently have the cricket keeper that comes with the tubes and love it so much because it's so easy to transfer them to feed them to our chams.