How do you care for crickets?

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Answer 1

Well you can keep them in a cricket box that you can pick up at the local pet store for fairly cheap. Cut up a quarter of potato and place it in the box. Put cotton or a plastic scrub sponge into a small lid, like a yogurt lid. This keeps crickets from falling into water and drowning. (Fill the lid with water) That is the cheap way to water them. You can also buy water bites at the pet store (cubes of gel like water) and thus they won't drown. Make sure to keep the crickets in a cool, shady place. Remove old potato and switch with new everyday! Now depending on what you are using the crickets for (if you are using it to feed a reptile) then make sure to go to your local pet store and buy something to gutload your crickets making them healthier for you reptile. I have a bearded dragon and I feed my crickets "Flukers Hi Calcium Cricket Diet" and they stay alive until their time is up. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

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 3

put them in a cricket keeper, with a few carrot slices, and a folded wet paper towel on the bottom, but not soaking wet. u don't want to drown them. if u can't see them in the keeper, it's because they went into the tubes, they didn't escape. although, they do escape every now and then, so keep them in the garage. plus, every once and awhile, u'll get a cricket that likes to chirp, and it's super annoying. they only live about a week. and they smell really bad. definately keep them in the garage.
good luck with your crickets! what kind of pet do u have that eats crickets? frog, bearded dragon...?
the small crickets are normally the best choice, because even if your pet is big, they can still choke on the medium and large size crickets. the small crickets are easiest for them to swallow.

Answer 4

They need to be kept with a food source, a water source in the form of fruit, and somewhere to hide. Should also be kept inside, out of draughts so they're not cold.

You can buy special 'cricket dispensing houses' - basically mini-tanks with ventilated lids that have two black tubes inserted into them. Most of the crickets will cluster into these tubes, so you can just draw the tubes out and shake a couple of crickets into the tank of the pet you're feeding (assuming that's what you're keeping the crickets for). You can use any tub with a lid though really, so long as there's airholes punched in the lid.

I used Weetabix (flaked wheat cereal!) as a base for my crickets to live on and eat, and put apple slices in there for their water source.

I also found a cricket food powder to put in there with them, has all the nutrients needed to keep them healthy.

Here's some cricket food for sale:
http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/feeders/cricket-food/
A very detailed site on cricket care:
http://skylab.org/~chugga/cricket/

Chalice

Answer 5

Purchase the appropriate sized "Kritter Keeper", Timberline-or some other brand cricket food and Timberline- Easy Water. Put appropriate amount of food/easy water in Mayonnaise sized jar lid and place in the container with a few toilet paper rolls. You can also add one piece of apple, orange or pear. When the fruit begins to mold or dry, replace it. Crickets that are 3/4" or smaller live the longest.

Answer 6

Crickets are extremely demanding to protect, so at the starting up, good success. you are able to pass on your nearby puppy keep and get "Flukers" cricket nutrition. Thats what maximum puppy shops and everybody who retains colony feeders makes use of. they actually have water gels that help ward off the mould which will grown on and contained in the moist sponge. Crickets in hassle-free words stay about a week after maturing. So, many will die earlier your frogs eat them. also, even as a cricket does die, it releases a chemical that kills different crickets(strange lil truth....), so in case you note a useless one, get rid of it. A substrate isn't mandatory for crickets, yet you do might want to provide them stuff to climb on, like egg cartons.

Answer 7

Crickets love Cardboard Boxes to hid in give them a potato so they can have to eat and get the moisture out of and give them a little water in a cap or a dish that seems to work a lot and give them some lettuce

Answer 8

well, to care for crickets, your supposed to keep them in maybe a class container first of all, and make sure they have like an egg carton to climb on. to feed the crickets you can put in a slice of apple or any hard fruit or vegetables or leaves even.

Answer 9

I'm assuming you're feeling something else?

I like the Gut-load gel cubes. They provide nutrition (when the one who eats them gets) and you put out a few cubes which provide liquid and food together.

If you use a water dish be sure it's very shallow or better just soak a sponge - they drown easily.

You can feel them just about anything, corn mills is good, fruits, veggies, dry dog/cat good.

Answer 10

cut up potatos work good