I have a big bin with a bunch of egg crates and soil where I have a discoid roach colony but just recently its been overrun with crickets, I have no idea how they got in there but they are breeding like crazy. I don't want them in there cuz they will eat the baby roaches and the reason I was breeding the roaches in the first place was so I could stop feeding my dude crickets. anyone know how I can get them out of there?
crickets started breeding in my roach colony
- Thread starter Eamon
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MissSkittles
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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 washing should be fine after. I’d keep the roaches without any substrate for a month or so. To prevent risk of crickets or other unwanted pests, you may want to invest in a bin without soil a gasket seal. You’ll have to use very fine screening for ventilation.
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.
