I get 100 crickets at a time because the shop I use has a punch card system making it necessary to get 100 at a time. I have a cricket keeper that is supposed to support 120-135 crickets at a time, but there seem to be a lot of dead crickets in the enclosure after a night or two. On the average, how many crickets of 100 will you lose when you stock up? I keep the cricket keeper in a deep plastic enclosure because no matter how tightly buttoned up that thing is, there seem to be 4 escapees every night! I don't know how they do it, but they sure do get out. Of course the escapees become the food of the day that morning I find them out of the keeper.
How many crickets of 100 die
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steppedinds
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not many will die if you provide them with plenty of water and food. they will die pretty fast, almost seemingly overnight, if they run out of water. I use the water crystals that you get from pet shops enriched with calcium to help gutload
deerharvester
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They need alot of space and air cirulation also. I use a very large plastic container, 3/4 of the way up I put packing tape all the way arround.
Tell me what you use the packing tape for. Is it to capture escapees or is it providing extra space, or what?
i put water in a cotton ball immediately after getting them home and I take it out daily to put in a new clean one. I have about 4 of the top gutloads growing in my organic garden, so they are well fed. All I can figure is there just isn't room in the enclosure and the two feeding tubes. I usually dum out 4-5 dead crickets before a live one comes out.
matt2310
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packing tape is used because cricekts cant climb the smooth surface.
packing tape is used because cricekts cant climb the smooth surface.
deerharvester
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Exactly, they can't climbover it
I see. I have a plastic enclosure, but they must be getting up on the feeding tubes and then gripping onto the air vents in the lid. Since I have them in a secondary container, which is a slippery plastic insert from an old 6 pack cooler, they are unable to get loose in the house. I just cleaned their enclosure up again, and there were only 30 or so out of 90 left alive, and four of them were too large for my chammy. I think I'monly going to buy 25-50 from now on. The shop is only a mile from my house so it'sno big deal. Thanks to everybody for your answers on this.
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