crickets

[franticurchin]

should i use some sort of bedding also just got some cricket crack bowl or just spread on the bottom? just wondering if i am doing it all wrong?

 

[Elizadolots]

I don't give my feeders any bedding, I just toss the dry gutload on the bottom of the keeper. I suspect if you provided bedding you might end up with baby crickets...not that there's anything wrong with that....

 

[franticurchin]

so dry gut-load just spread on the bottom. how much gut-load per 100 crickets?

 

[Elizadolots]

Well, there you've got me...I just toss some in and check it whenever I pull crickets out to see if I need to add more.

 

[franticurchin]

ok thanks just dont want to be too wasteful and i have been having alot of dieing crickets so just wanted to find out if there could be a problem with how i have been feeding them

 

[chameleonoobie]

If you’ve got mixed sizes together start noticing if the dead ones are all larger. They only live a short time and if you don’t feed off the older ones they just die naturally. I think a lot of people think they are doing something wrong when the only thing happening is you aren’t feeding them off before they croak from old age.

 

[franticurchin]

If you’ve got mixed sizes together start noticing if the dead ones are all larger. They only live a short time and if you don’t feed off the older ones they just die naturally. I think a lot of people think they are doing something wrong when the only thing happening is you aren’t feeding them off before they croak from old age.

i dont think this is the problem cause they aren't even mature when they are dieing and its a death rate of at least 10 a week and i only buy about 200 crickets at a time...