Breeding Crickets?

Question

I have several pets that eat crickets. I am tired of going to the store every other day and getting some so i want to buy them in bulk and hope the breed. I would like to know if this is worth doing and if there are any tips in cricket breeding.

Answer 1

My advice to you is to simply try it and if you find that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, you can simply stop.

My experiences with raising feeder crickets is they are noisy and smelly and can escape by the dozens. In addition, they do require daily care which can be a chore. Breeding thousands of crickets, you need to feed them, clean their containers (dead bodies, uneaten food, fecal matter) otherwise they will reek, and of course harvest the eggs and prepare other boxes for new generations of crickets.

But if you have a place to keep them, what's the worst that'll happen? You toss them out and start buying them again because you don't like it? Caring for them is reasonably simple, low maintanence, and cheap so just consider it an experiment. Hell, maybe you can even profit a little by selling them to other people.

Here's a good website that explains everything very well too.

http://www.arbreptiles.com/bugs/crix.shtml

Answer 2

The other alternative option is buying them from a cricket breeder. I buy mine at $13 for 1000 crickets shipped.

Don't have the worries/time from breeding and still an affordable price.

Yahoo or Google search on crickets should give you a huge list of cricket breeders to choose from.

Answer 3

only poking small holes interior the appropriate only would not seem to allow for sufficient airflow, and issues get damp, pungent, and nasty particularly immediately. i propose an analogous element another poster said, reducing area of the lid away, and then attaching widely used exhibit screen to it. i stumble on it particularly effortless to apply a warm glue gun to connect the exhibit screen, or an epoxy type glue....even if the soldering iron feels like a neat theory to boot.