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[gullah gullah]

Well crickets happened to have baby's in my pacs tank is this bad should I be worrying about this or is it fine

[Sublime]

Well, in a sense it's bad because enough of them will prey on your pacman - even the babies when they're hungry. So I would either try to remove all the soil coming from where they hatched or just clean out the whole tank and start over. Without food and water they should die within a couple of days or all the way up into a week, but I wouldn't risk it.

Did you notice that there were a lot of them in there? If you don't have time right now to clean out the tank until a later time, leave a carrot or some type of vegetable in there. Keep the soil moist so they can stay hydrated.

[gullah gullah]

Seen bout 5 - 7 of them

[Sublime]

Hm, well considering your pacman isn't going to even take interest in feeding on a small pinhead. Just spot clean them out, leave a piece of a carrot in there for precaution.

[tikonides]

on the female crickets, you can just cut the egg laying tube off, that's what I do so they won't lay their eggs into the substrate, the female crickets have the dark long tube in the middle between the 2 horns on the butt, males only have the 2 horns

check out the difference between the male and female in the link below

http://per.ornl.gov/Winterhalter01.jpg

[Guenhwyvar]

that's a hot tank, the eggs need about 90F to hatch. Females have laid eggs in my tank but it's at 80F most of the time, so the eggs just die. I finally was able to breed my crickets in a separate tank, so I don't have to go buy so many. they breed easy enough, but getting the eggs to hatch takes 90F and moist soil. It's difficult, I tried all summer only to get babies once the cold set in.

[frogluver]

on the female crickets, you can just cut the egg laying tube off, that's what I do so they won't lay their eggs into the substrate, the female crickets have the dark long tube in the middle between the 2 horns on the butt, males only have the 2 horns

check out the difference between the male and female in the link below

http://per.ornl.gov/Winterhalter01.jpg

That's exactly what I was going to suggest lol :P!!