Crickets- noob starting to breed

[arnau666]

to breed crickets i need 2 containers or 3?
i have in mind 1 container for where females lay eggs and after that incubate and 1 for adults? is that ok?

how should i move the adults from one container to another?one by one?

at what age should i move the baby crickets to the adult container?
how often do they lay eggs?

damn so many question i wanna do it right

 

[Hoj]

i use 3 containers.
1 with adults in it
1 in with the adults, with dirt covered in screen
and 1 to put the 1 with the dirt into to incubate.

what i did was took a smaller tupperware and put about 2inch of dirt in and covered that with screen.( keeps adults from eating the eggs ) i leave it with the adults for about a week to 10 days. ( as long as i see females laying ) i then remove that container and place it in a bit bigger of a rubbermaid (hatching bin). i place the dirt conatainer ontop of a deli cup in the hatching bin, then when the baby crickets hatch out they jump/fall down into the main bin and cant get back into the dirt.
after i stop seeing new crickets hatch out i reamove the dirt conatiner and delicup, leaving all the babies in the new bin and start again.
hope that makes sence

 

[arnau666]

thanks a lot ! you answered exactly what i needed to know !
one more quick question after they hatched you throw out the dirt where the eggs were?and how long do you keep the babies in there ?

 

[arnau666]

ah sorry i didnt read proper!
the only question is how long do you keep the babies till you put them with adults?

 

[BocaJan]

This is the best site I found for raising crickets. I have used it myself. It has lots of pictures so it makes it easy to follow.

http://skylab.org/~chugga/cricket/

 

[Hoj]

you wont ever really put them in with aduts unless you dont worry about what size cricket you are feeding off. i feed alot of chams of all diferent sizes so i keep them in the bin they hatched into ( not the dirt ) and feed from their.
if they make it to a large size ( without being fed off) that is close to the others you can dump them into the same bin.

 

[arnau666]

thank you for your help !damn i hope i can do it from the 1st time ! ill keep you updated how i can manage to breed them

 

[Hoj]

thank you for your help !damn i hope i can do it from the 1st time ! ill keep you updated how i can manage to breed them

no prob, best of luck