How do your care for crickets?

Answer 1

Hi Patrick. Caring for crickets is really quite easy. You need 3 things. A food source, a water source and something for them to hide in/on/and around. The food source and water source can be the same. Many cricket farms ship their crickets with potatoes, which have a very high liquid content and can also be eaten. I don't suggest potatoes because the longer they are exposed to air after cutting, they start to smell absolutely terrible. Try apples, a piece of melon, or some other fruit that is high in water content and also edible (stay away from citrus). You can also buy cricket food (typically known as "Gut Load") and a gel water formula to feed crickets with at most pet supply stores. You don't want to put just a dish of water in a cricket cage, because many of the crickets will drown in it. Egg carton and toilet paper tubes can be used for hiding places so the crickets do not get stressed.

Answer 2

I used to have very healthy crickets that I fed to my tarantula. The crickets were actually more work than the spider.

I kept the crickets in a special 'cricket dispensing tank' I got from the petshop - basically a mini tank with a ventilated lid and two black tubes inside that you could shake the crickets out of into the spider tank. Most of the crickets clustered into these tubes, they like the dark.

You can buy cricket food in petshops and off the internet, it's like a powder stuff. I also kept mine on a bed of Weetabix and gave them apple slices. I dusted these with the cricket food. The apple was for their water supply, they don't need a water bowl and can drown in it.

My crickets were disgustingly healthy so I would recommend this! If you don't want to buy the cricket tank thing (but I would, because then you avoid the horrible things escaping and it stops you having to touch them as well) you can use any kind of tank, or even like an empty ice cream box but with holes punched in the lid of course. You can use toilet roll tubes or the like for them to hide in, they like it.

Chalice

Answer 3

I am assuming you mean to keep crickets as feeders. If so, you put them in a ventilated container and add some paper towel rolls (empty of course), toilet paper rolls will work too, then throw in a damp draped paper towel for moisture. Make sure it's covered well, but has air. Then you'll need Cricket dust from the pet store for food. You should be set.