Dead crickets?

[boots123]

On Sunday, I bought about 5 dozen crickets to feed my veiled. Dusted hem with calcium powder. I fed them oranges plus a mixture of poppy seed, organic sunflower seed, almonds, and seasame seeds.

All but like, 3 died two days later. Did I do something wrong? There was also an electrician fixing the wiring in our house, so it got quiet cold in the cage

 

[kinyonga]

Can't say for sure why they died but....
You shouldn't dust them with the calcium until just before you are going to feed them to the chameleon.
Being too cold for too long could also kill them.
I feed my crickets a wide assortment of greens such as dandelions, collards, endive, escarole, mustard greens, kale, etc and veggies such as carrots, sweet potato, sweet red pepper, squash, zucchini, etc. I don't know if they can eat nuts and seeds without crushing them first since I have never tried it.

 

[Carlton]

On Sunday, I bought about 5 dozen crickets to feed my veiled. Dusted hem with calcium powder. I fed them oranges plus a mixture of poppy seed, organic sunflower seed, almonds, and seasame seeds.

All but like, 3 died two days later. Did I do something wrong? There was also an electrician fixing the wiring in our house, so it got quiet cold in the cage

Were any dying before the temp dropped? If not, the cold may have done it. Were they all adults? If so maybe you got a batch that were near the end of their life, but a group that large probably not. Ask the place you got them if they had large die-offs of that same batch. Do you use paper towel or tp roll cores in the crix bin? Some paper roll manufacturers use toxic glues that might kill crix if they happen to chew on them. After all, tp paper makers aren't intending them to be used around food or feeders. There is a crix virus and some fungal infections that can kill off entire colonies too.

 

[SMCNARY]

On Sunday, I bought about 5 dozen crickets to feed my veiled. Dusted hem with calcium powder. I fed them oranges plus a mixture of poppy seed, organic sunflower seed, almonds, and seasame seeds.

All but like, 3 died two days later. Did I do something wrong? There was also an electrician fixing the wiring in our house, so it got quiet cold in the cage

If I understood you did you dust them all? If so my guess is that could have been a big part of the problem. It is best to dust just before feeding. If the temp got to cold that could also do it. The combination of both and depending on there condition when you got them could have been the double whammy so to speak. It is a good idea to give lots of food and use lots of veggies with high moisture content when you first get a new batch as the are often dehydrated when just purchased. Check out sandrachameleon's page and look at cricket gut loading as she has the best info I have seen on cricket feeding and it should help. Finally as others have mentioned some times they get a virus and can all die hope this helps

 

[Bush baby]

This has happened to me before and the cause was the dusting. There's a thin line between dusting lightly and over dusting. The powder can easily clog up their breathing apparatus'. If you 'caked' your crickets with powdered, then there lies the issue.