Breeding Crickets

thegeckoteam · 06-16-04, 08:39 AM

Hi-

Now that I'm breeding Leopard Geckos and the babies are hatching they are eating me out of house and home.

Does anyone have any good advice on how to breed crickets easily? I've read up on some websites and tried my hand at it, but I'm not having much success. If I could breed some of my own crickets this would cut down some of my overhead. I already order from on-line suppliers but even then it's getting expensive. Thanks for any advice.

meow_mix450 · 06-19-04, 07:48 PM

Trust me its harder then its looks, you have to try again and again until you start having pin heads

Meow

concept3 · 06-23-04, 11:26 PM

buy 2 large tupperwares, 4 sweater box sized tupperwares and 4 sandwich sized tupperwares. Put your breeders in the large tupperware with no substrate, give them food water and one of the sandwich sized tupperwares filled with moist top soil. In five days take out the small tupperwear with the eggs/soil put it in one of the swaeter sized tupperwares. Then replace the dirt into the colony with one of the other tupperwares filled with moist soil. It will take the eggs 5-14 days to hatch depending on the temp. just repeat this cycle and i guarantee you will have too many crickets to know what to do with. A couple pointers i had to learn the hard way. Never let the soil with the eggs dry up, NEVER put substrate in your breeding colony just the dirt in the small tupperware so it is easy to remove. DONT heat your breeding colony this will shorten their lives. buy a human heatin pad to heat the eggs and freshly hatched crickets this will speed up the growth/hatch time. This is all i can think of at the moment, their are lots of good sites with very detailed breeding instructions. One more thing the second large tupperware is so you can clean the breeding colony monthly to greatly reduce the smell.

thegeckoteam · 06-24-04, 03:39 PM

Thank you so much for your input. I actually just started hatching out some crickets today. Yeah!! I'm doing almost what you said, but now I just have to keep up on it and buy some more containers this weekend.