How can i breed crickets?

[vladdimir26]

Hello all

I have been noticing that the price of crickets in my local store has been increasing. I know I can buy them online cheaper and for more, but I am really interested in knowing how I can breed my own. I bought 250 crickets last time. I put them on my old snake tank and filled all of the bedding with dirt. I saw the females sticking their little stick-on-their-butt on the ground but it was been over 2 weeks and none of them have hatched. I am probably doing something wrong and it's not as easy as I think. Please let me know how I can breed my own crickets! Thanks

 

[patrickfraser]

Go with dubias. No problem at all. Food, water, heat, darkness, and forget about it. Sorry, but I know nothing about crickets.

 

[Thezillaman21]

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[jdog1027]

When you saw the females sticking their ovipositors into the ground, they were laying eggs. It usually takes about 9-10 days for them to hatch at a temperature of about 85-90F. But lower temperatures will substantially increase the hatch time. So don't give up, you will have pinheads very shortly, and increasing the temperature will speed up the process. A heating pad under the tank will work on low setting, but keep in mind that this will begin to dry your soil out, which will ruin the eggs. Make sure and spray them everyday if it appears to be drying out. One other thing, if you still have adult crickets inside the tank, there is a good possibility that they have dug up and ate a majority of the eggs. Crickets are foragers and oppurtunistic, and even if you keep your crickets well fed, they will still dig up and eat eggs. And I don't know what size of crickets you are needing, but it is going to be at least 5-7 weeks before they are up to or approaching adult size. So in the meantime, you will still need to buy crickets. The best case scenario if you require adult sized crickerts as feeders is to start a new batch or tank of breeders at least once a week. This requires a lot of space and time, but the idea is that you have a continuing batch of new eggs every week so that when your first batch has been nearly depleted, you have a new batch just coming to size and so on. Breeding cricketsa is not easy or fun and is very unpredictable. Yoiu may hatch 3-4000 in a batch one week, and the next batch be a complete bust. Good luck.

 

[clarkrw3]

In my experience breeding crickets is either really easy or really hard depending on which crickets you start with. Browns =hard, black = easy. With black crickets I put 15-20 females in a bin with a laying tub of sphagnum peat moss that is 5" x 5" x 1" make sure it is moist but not wet. Leave the females in there with the laying bin for 5-7 days. Then remove the bin and place it in another bin (I usually use a 29 L without ventilation to keep the moisture in) you can open the lid every couple of days to let fresh air on. I place it next to the lights on the top of a cham cage and wait 10-14 days and then you get pins. Make sure you have some bug burger or water crystals in there for them to eat before they hatch. I also put a little coco fiber in the bin for them but to do there first couple of molts in. I have never had good success with brown crickets doing this and never failed to have success using the black crickets you get from Mulberryfarms or The Bug Guy.

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[Beachbabies]

go with dubia! we tried crickets, it was a pain in the butt! and they stink! and they're noisy! and they escape! ive been sucessfully breeding my own dubia for the past 8 months, it's so easy! all you need is a tub or bucket, a heat pad, about 1000 adult dubia to start your colony and thats it! leave it alone for 2-3 months and thats it! they eat all of our left overs, including the stumps from lettuce and tomatos. when you place your first order, make sure that youre adults are a 1:3-1:5 ratio, and get a few thousand to feed off until your colony is mature.

 

[Thezillaman21]

go with dubia! we tried crickets, it was a pain in the butt! and they stink! and they're noisy! and they escape! ive been sucessfully breeding my own dubia for the past 8 months, it's so easy! all you need is a tub or bucket, a heat pad, about 1000 adult dubia to start your colony and thats it! leave it alone for 2-3 months and thats it! they eat all of our left overs, including the stumps from lettuce and tomatos. when you place your first order, make sure that youre adults are a 1:3-1:5 ratio, and get a few thousand to feed off until your colony is mature.

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