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Bradyloach
02-26-12, 07:44 PM
So I've decided to order crickets online from a business called Canada crickets by the 1000s. It's located in Kitchener! I see it as every week I have to buy 100 crickets for cass and night crawlers. That alone costs me 15 -20 bucks a week. The price of 1000 crickets at this store is 25 for 1000! That's unreal never knew it was that cheap for crickets. Plus now I have a beardie as well! So I'm going to be ordering my crickets online now untill my roach colony gets started! My sav roughly eats 15-20 crickets a day with 5 night crawlers! But every third day he eats 30 crickets or something like that! My beardie is an eating machine too!!! So i figured this would be the best way to feed them. Any other suggestions? I love my sav and my wonderfull beardie! Any name suggestions for my beardie? Don't know the sex yet!
BarelyBreathing
02-26-12, 07:56 PM
Set them up much as you would roaches, except add some dirt substrate.
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:01 PM
Yah I deff will! I don't have another heating pad tho. So I'll just keep them in a cricket keeper, they will be fine I'll feed them off super fast
I go through 1000 crickets a week :)
Much better to buy in bulk like that
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:06 PM
Wow we're do you order them from? And we're do you buy them from?
I either get them from my reptile store or a friend who breeds them.
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:09 PM
Oh wow! How much do you pay at a reptile store?
$23 for 1000
Sometimes if they have had them for a while and some may be dead they will throw in another box of 1000 for free. I just make sure I have them for 24 hours befor e i feed them off so I can give the crickets a good feeding.
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:13 PM
Wow! Petsmart I pay like 11 for 100! That's insane
infernalis
02-26-12, 08:20 PM
When Littlefoot arrives, I will be ordering some crickets.
My only other option around here is that pet store with the sav girl languishing in a fish tank.
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:23 PM
:( yah , I'm going to keep 1000 crickets in a smal smal box, haha they won't last long anyways!
BarelyBreathing
02-26-12, 08:24 PM
Make sure you gut load!
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:25 PM
Make sure you gut load!
Yah that's for sure!!! They can be kept in a small space Tho right? If I put a lot of egg cartons in there?
Lots of egg cartons for them to hide. multiple places for them to get food also
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:34 PM
Yah sounds good, I want to also start taking my sav out of her enclosure to feed
Yah sounds good, I want to also start taking my sav out of her enclosure to feed
Why is it you are wanting to do this?
This could be stressful for a little one and may make him/her not eat at all. Best to let them eat where he/she feels safe.
IMO at least.
Bradyloach
02-26-12, 08:41 PM
Yah, that's true, I'm tong feeding her she's doing great, coming on me and everything. I meant my beardie, not my sav, my sav is doing great
No need for a new heating pad, just put their tub on the top of your monitor enclosure. That should be high 80s or low 90s anyway.
infernalis
02-26-12, 11:53 PM
No need for a new heating pad, just put their tub on the top of your monitor enclosure. That should be high 80s or low 90s anyway.
That would never work for me ;)
Is yours too well insulated Wayne? Or is it too covered in snake enclosures?! ;)
infernalis
02-27-12, 11:56 AM
Insulated...
http://www.rockyroost.us/Enclosure/insulate.jpg
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