Feeder Care - Habitats?

[Gnag the nameless]

I thought it would be interesting to see all the various containers/tanks/habitats people keep their crickets, mealworms, dubia's, and other feeders in. So, take some pictures of those soon-to-be-snacks homes, and post away!

I'll start off with showing you guys my cricket's tank:

Here's the tank, a 5 gallon. I have sawdust for substrate, and egg cartons for the crickets to hide in.

I've just got a fresh batch of crickets, hence how they are all crawling about. I have flukers cricket quencher [the blue globs] and Zilla's cricket diet, which are seen in this photo.


I usually just go outside and get the earthworms at night from my compost. It's not fun, but it's worth it for my frogs.

So, what do you keep your feeders in? Post pictures and such. It's interesting to see, and could come in handy.

[deranged chipmunk]

my hissing cockroach show tank. the breeding bin is nothing special:

[Gnag the nameless]

You feed hissing cockroaches to your frogs? That's new to me

Nice setup as well. The moss intermixed with the logs and dirt gives it a really natural look.

[Sasha]

Cricket tanks:



No substate because they are so dirty. Egg crate, cricket quencher, Flukers orange cubes, Fluker's dry meal and today it was apple and a bit of yellow pepper because that's what my beardie was fed today.

One's a 5 gallon and one is a 10. Normally when one is in use the other is being cleaned but this time I had to use both of them.

[Bombina Bob]

I have a 45 gallon steralite tub that i breed crickets in. pics coming soon.

[Gnag the nameless]

Nice!

I prefer to use sawdust to make the tank look prettier to the eye, but still. The day before I go get more crickets, they'll often hide in the sawdust, and it's annoying trying to find them.

I used to feed my crickets apple slices, bread, and various other things, but now I stick with cricket quencher, cricket diet, and lettuce just because they don't go off as easily as the other options.

[Sasha]

Nice!

I prefer to use sawdust to make the tank look prettier to the eye, but still. The day before I go get more crickets, they'll often hide in the sawdust, and it's annoying trying to find them.

I used to feed my crickets apple slices, bread, and various other things, but now I stick with cricket quencher, cricket diet, and lettuce just because they don't go off as easily as the other options.

I'm lucky my apartment has it's own basement so I have the crickets down there and they don't need to look pretty. I can imagine how hard it is to find them in sawdust. When I'm down to like 20 or so crickets they stop hanging out on the egg crate and singly walk around the tank. Takes like 20 minutes to corral them!

[Gnag the nameless]

I keep my crickets tank in one of the chambers of the cabinet. The top of the cabinet is where I keep the frogs, so it's easy to get crickets from their tank to the frogs.



You can see the buckets on the chamber to the left, and the lid of the cricket tank to the bottom-right.

Finding them in the sawdust is hard. What I usually have to do is take off the lid quietly, flip the one or more of the egg cartons over, get the crickets [I usually try to go for right-sized ones, and if I can, freshly molted] before they skitter down into the sawdust, and during this, also make sure none of the big ones leap out! It can be quite a hassle, but it's definitely worth it for the frogs. I will often place 3 crickets in the tank during the early evening, 5 later on, and the last 2 right before I go to sleep.

One of my major issues with feeding is food competition. Gnag is a hog. She will often eat the first 3 before Bumpy is even out of the cave. If Gnag is distracted, or not in a position to take out a cricket, Bumpy will often take her chance. But Bumpy always has to be ready to spring into action at a moment's notice in order to get a cricket if Gnag is out hunting too. What I often do to solve this is place one or two crickets nearby the filter. Gnag will go after them, and during this, I'll place 3 on the water reeds, which Bumpy will then eat. Usually this works, and it makes both frogs happy.

[deranged chipmunk]

You feed hissing cockroaches to your frogs? That's new to me

Nice setup as well. The moss intermixed with the logs and dirt gives it a really natural look.

yup, my white's get hisser nymphs, dubia nymphs and crickets. i'm also breeding the hissers to go into my 125g madagascar tank.

[Gnag the nameless]

Lucky frogs! Mine only get gutloaded crickets and earthworms, but this suits them fine for now. I might breed guppies to feed to my frogs eventually, though I'm not keen on it. I can't do mice. I'd never forgive myself.

I would breed dubia's if they were legal in Canada. But, I can manage with crickets and earthworms for now. Do you know of any other feeders other than crickets, mealworms, superworms, earthworms, hawkworms, cockroaches, mice, goldfish, and guppies?

[Sasha]

One of my major issues with feeding is food competition. Gnag is a hog. She will often eat the first 3 before Bumpy is even out of the cave. If Gnag is distracted, or not in a position to take out a cricket, Bumpy will often take her chance. But Bumpy always has to be ready to spring into action at a moment's notice in order to get a cricket if Gnag is out hunting too. What I often do to solve this is place one or two crickets nearby the filter. Gnag will go after them, and during this, I'll place 3 on the water reeds, which Bumpy will then eat. Usually this works, and it makes both frogs happy.

Food competition is a tough one. I have three whites in the same tank. They usually all start to get into position for dinner when they wake up. I always wait until all three are awake before I feed. Usually they all go for a cricket one right after the other so while one is swallowing the other is eating and so on. One or two times I've noticed one have a cricket on it's head and the other goes for it and gets a whole frog head in it's mouth! Luckily they don't like the taste of frog