Keeping crickets and Hoppers.

ColbyKun · 11-08-09, 10:05 PM

how do you keep crickets and hoppers? what do you put them in, what do you feed them, how dou you stop them fromjumping out when you pickone up with tweezers etc?

siz · 11-09-09, 04:58 PM

This is info that can easily be found by a simple google search
"cricket care": Results 1 - 10 of about 32,400,000 for cricket care. (0.30 seconds)

I keep my crickets in a 20g tank with a screen lid and feed them potato, carrot, tomato and other veggies for gutloading, dry cricket chow, and cricket water. Make sure the veggies don't get moldy, change them every couple days. Egg carton to climb on. Easy as that

ColbyKun · 11-10-09, 10:38 AM

Thank you very much, I know about google search but it varied too much for my liking and rather get advice from peple like you who know. =]

siz · 11-10-09, 03:38 PM

Lol no doubt. As for the hoppers you would need to breed rats unless you just buy them as needed because obviously the hoppers grow and don't stay little for long..haha.
What I normally do to get crickets out is grab a small-ish plastic container, like a margarine container, and put it in the tank and shake the crickets into it, inside the tank, hopefully you get what I mean, and then use tongs to grab them from there, or dump them into a tank.

ColbyKun · 11-10-09, 05:20 PM

haha, clever, what snake do you have?

siz · 11-11-09, 04:25 PM

Right now I only have the one ball python. I've had other snakes and will get other snakes but I'm really into geckos and dragons and I have limited space.

ttammers · 11-12-09, 03:03 PM

Another possibility for grabbing some crickets is shaking them into a ziplock bag from inside their tank by shaking them off of their egg cartons. I like to do it this way when I'm using calcium powder because you can do a cricket shake'n'bake.

Will0W783 · 11-13-09, 09:59 AM

It's shake'n'bake, and I helped!
Sorry I couldn't resist.
Yes a baggie works great for powdering crickets. Lizards should have their crickets powdered every time so they keep up their calcium levels and have a reptile multi-vitamin added once every 4-5 feedings as well. I like Repti-Cal because it is calcium plus vitamin D which is necessary for calcium absorption. Make sure you get a powder made for reptiles. I've heard of people grinding up people vitamins or using human calcium powder and wondering why their lizards died.