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    what the best wayto keep crickets alive??? lots of them keep dieing on me. i feed them, watter em, and keep them in a warm place. is this just normal or is there anything i can do to make it harder for them to die??? im just sick of losing ten crickets in a day.

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    This is one of the many reasons I dont keep crickets anymore but make sure your keeper has plenty of ventilation too much CO2 can kill them fast also never put in direct contact with O2 that'll kill them too how do you water them?
    -Tyler
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    well ther all my frog will eat. i use my sqiurt bottle and spray a couple time, they love to drown themselves so im afriad to put a bowl in ther. dumb things. lol well its just a normal cricket keeper, so ventalation seems fine to me. i try to get dead crickets out when i can cuz ik it kills the others so fast...not suprised since they smell so bad when they die lol thanx for the tip.

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    my guess would be its the misting, see if you can order "Water Crystals" and use those (you'll have to make them but its easy and very efficiant 1 oz makes like a gallon of water crystals) for now use potatoe and carrots they wil get the water out of them

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    oh carrots is all i feed em. lol where would u get water crystals?? never heard of those b4.

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    Petsmart sells them pre made anyplace online you can order crickets or roaches
    -Tyler
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    1-Vield Chameleon-Pascal
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    2- Sulcata Torts- Chunk and Scoot
    1-Argentine BWxRed Tegu-Kirby





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    oh ok. thanks

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    No problem I order mine and make them at home WAAAAAAY cheaper
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    any pet store should have water crystals

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    Quote Originally Posted by Savannah View Post
    what the best wayto keep crickets alive??? lots of them keep dieing on me. i feed them, watter em, and keep them in a warm place. is this just normal or is there anything i can do to make it harder for them to die??? im just sick of losing ten crickets in a day.
    Hi Savannah,
    Very often, you may think you are looking at a dead cricket ( cricket bodies) when you are actually looking a its shed.
    A shed will move easily if you gently blow in its direction. Like a feather.
    Look very closely at what you think is a dead cricket dead; or is it a skeleton?

    What do you think? Let us know.
    Current Collection
    Dendrobates leucomelas - standard morph
    Dendrobates auratus “Costa Rican Green Black"
    Dendrobates auratus "Pena Blanca"
    Dendrobates tinctorius “New River”
    Dendrobates tinctorius "Green Sipaliwini"
    Dendrobates tinctorius “Powder Blue"
    Dendrobates tinctorius "French Guiana Dwarf Cobalt"

    Phyllobates terribilis “Mint”
    Phyllobates terribilis "Orange"
    Phyllobates bicolor "Uraba"

    Oophaga pumilio "Black Jeans"
    Oophaga pumilio "Isla Popa"
    Oophaga pumilio "Bastimentos"
    Oophaga pumilio “Mimbitimbi”
    Oophaga pumilio "Rio Colubre"
    Oophaga pumilio "Red Frog Beach”
    Oophaga pumilio "Rio Branco"
    Oophaga pumilio “Valle del Rey”
    Oophaga pumilio "BriBri"
    Oophaga pumilio "El Dorado"
    Oophaga pumilio "Cristobal"
    Oophaga pumilio "Rambala"

    Oophaga “Vicentei” (blue)

    Oophaga sylvatica "Paru"
    Oophaga sylvatica "Pata Blanca"
    Oophaga histrionica “Redhead”
    Oophaga histrionica "Blue"
    Oophaga lehmanni "Red"
    Oophaga histrionica "Tado"

    Ranitomeya variabilis "Southern"
    Ranitomeya imitator "Varadero"
    Ranitomeya sirensis "Lower Ucayali"
    Ranitomeya vanzolinii

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    Instead of buying water crystals, You can ball up toilet paper and wet it down every now and then. The crickets should drink from this. I seen it a lot on Youtube..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Savannah View Post
    well ther all my frog will eat. i use my sqiurt bottle and spray a couple time, they love to drown themselves so im afriad to put a bowl in ther. dumb things. lol well its just a normal cricket keeper, so ventalation seems fine to me. i try to get dead crickets out when i can cuz ik it kills the others so fast...not suprised since they smell so bad when they die lol thanx for the tip.
    Savannah,
    Don't spray them. They are fools and drown easily! Especially if they are small.
    Warm and dry with a separate dish for clean water at all times!
    ( I use dampened cotton balls - de-chlorinated water)
    I put the cotton ball in the bottom of a cheap bathroom cup - with a hole cut in the bottom for the crickets to crawl in and out of .
    A shallow bottle cap works well also. Just make sure they can climb into it.
    Current Collection
    Dendrobates leucomelas - standard morph
    Dendrobates auratus “Costa Rican Green Black"
    Dendrobates auratus "Pena Blanca"
    Dendrobates tinctorius “New River”
    Dendrobates tinctorius "Green Sipaliwini"
    Dendrobates tinctorius “Powder Blue"
    Dendrobates tinctorius "French Guiana Dwarf Cobalt"

    Phyllobates terribilis “Mint”
    Phyllobates terribilis "Orange"
    Phyllobates bicolor "Uraba"

    Oophaga pumilio "Black Jeans"
    Oophaga pumilio "Isla Popa"
    Oophaga pumilio "Bastimentos"
    Oophaga pumilio “Mimbitimbi”
    Oophaga pumilio "Rio Colubre"
    Oophaga pumilio "Red Frog Beach”
    Oophaga pumilio "Rio Branco"
    Oophaga pumilio “Valle del Rey”
    Oophaga pumilio "BriBri"
    Oophaga pumilio "El Dorado"
    Oophaga pumilio "Cristobal"
    Oophaga pumilio "Rambala"

    Oophaga “Vicentei” (blue)

    Oophaga sylvatica "Paru"
    Oophaga sylvatica "Pata Blanca"
    Oophaga histrionica “Redhead”
    Oophaga histrionica "Blue"
    Oophaga lehmanni "Red"
    Oophaga histrionica "Tado"

    Ranitomeya variabilis "Southern"
    Ranitomeya imitator "Varadero"
    Ranitomeya sirensis "Lower Ucayali"
    Ranitomeya vanzolinii

    http://www.fernsfrogs.com
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    Quote Originally Posted by flybyferns View Post
    Hi Savannah,
    Very often, you may think you are looking at a dead cricket ( cricket bodies) when you are actually looking a its shed.
    A shed will move easily if you gently blow in its direction. Like a feather.
    Look very closely at what you think is a dead cricket dead; or is it a skeleton?

    What do you think? Let us know.
    lol there crickets, i can tell if there skeleton, so im sure this time im not being blonde. lol
    crickets are stupid! they c water and they run to and then realize they drowning...op didnt think that one through. lol dumb things.
    ill try the cottonbals/ toilet paper. thanx you guys!

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    The cotton ball and toilet paper ideas are awesome I got 1lb of water crystals when I started my colony and each oz makes a gallon so I have more than I'll ever use haha even feeding all my herps
    -Tyler
    1-African BullFrog-Rex
    1-Bearded Dragon-Stubble
    1-Vield Chameleon-Pascal
    2-Green Iguanas- LeeRoy and Spike
    2- Sulcata Torts- Chunk and Scoot
    1-Argentine BWxRed Tegu-Kirby





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    i use the orange flukers cricket food ....gets the job done and little to no dead crickets

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