Escaping Crickets

[slimninj4]

I have a small cricket keeper that I keep about 15-20 crickets a time in there. Replacing every 7-10 days. They keep escaping!!. I have taped the holes on the side now but sometimes one or two will get out. Finally They excape my 18x12x12 frog habitat. I guess they are squeezing through the area where the top lip is. How can I seal this. They are escaping before the frog can eat dinner.

[guilletto]

It happend me too! Then I put fiberglass at the top. If necessary, put saran wrap!

I have a small cricket keeper that I keep about 15-20 crickets a time in there. Replacing every 7-10 days. They keep escaping!!. I have taped the holes on the side now but sometimes one or two will get out. Finally They excape my 18x12x12 frog habitat. I guess they are squeezing through the area where the top lip is. How can I seal this. They are escaping before the frog can eat dinner.

[Mentat]

After using both the small and large cricket keepers I got rid of them and just keep them in a medium size ExoTerra breeding box with 1/2 egg carton box and two trays (1 for water, 1 for food). No escapes and cricket death losses have diminished!

If ExoTerra type habitat they are probably escaping from vent holes on top back. You can use terrarium moss to fill and block exit to that area. Good luck !

[Lija]

I'm just taping those holes and keeping mine in a plastic bin

[deranged chipmunk]

if you use a glass bowl about 3" high to feed your frogs with (place crickets in bowl), you should be able to cut down on the amount of escapees from your enclosure.

[elery]

i use a container which is around 25 cm high, round cheap one , i popped holes in the top , and none seem to get out. even when i'm picking through them for the smallest ones they cant climb the sides, some try jump but they cant seem to make the leap. i put a egg carter in it also.

i only feed my frogs in a container with holes in it,also , only cause i read that crickets can hurt your frogs in set free in their enclosure, im not sure if this is true but i did not want to take any chances.
but at the same time, i have to disturbed my babies every evening to offer them food. which i do not like also,
id lvoe to know how others go about feeding time, and if crickets do in fact hurt lil frogs.

[demon amphibians]

its inevitable crickets will escape no matter how secure of an enclosure you have. Even if you prevent them from escaping from your frog tank and the cricket keeper they will get away when you attempt to feed them off. The bad thing is they can live in your house with out problems.

[Heatheranne]

I do the same as Sasha...10 gallon tank with the metal screen lid. No escapees unless I let some out when tapping the egg carton over my cup.

I use the glass bowl method for feeding all of my tree frogs and my gecko. Works great and then you'll know how many they've eaten.

[slimninj4]

What do you guys mean by the glass bowl method? Are you taking the legs off the crickets or killing them before feeding to the frog? If you put the in a bowl don't they jump out?

[Mentat]

What do you guys mean by the glass bowl method? Are you taking the legs off the crickets or killing them before feeding to the frog? If you put the in a bowl don't they jump out?

Glass is too slippery and crickets can't get out, no need to take legs off or kill them .

[SweetApples]

I have crickets living in the basement and I've never brought any crickets here or tried to keep them in tanks. If I tried to raise crickets, I wouldn't even notice if they escaped because I hear them in the basement chirping all the time.

[JMDaniels]

I have a small cricket keeper that I keep about 15-20 crickets a time in there. Replacing every 7-10 days. They keep escaping!!. I have taped the holes on the side now but sometimes one or two will get out. Finally They excape my 18x12x12 frog habitat. I guess they are squeezing through the area where the top lip is. How can I seal this. They are escaping before the frog can eat dinner.

Just wondering, are you using "Lee's Kricket Keeper"? That keeper is terrible and is well known for having crickets escape all the time, which is why I'm just wondering. I would of course recommend that you move your crickets into a different container. If you can get a small aquarium or fish bowl with a screen lid, that would be perfect.

[slimninj4]

Just wondering, are you using "Lee's Kricket Keeper"? That keeper is terrible and is well known for having crickets escape all the time, which is why I'm just wondering. I would of course recommend that you move your crickets into a different container. If you can get a small aquarium or fish bowl with a screen lid, that would be perfect.

sorry about the slow reply. Yea I am using Lee Cricket Keeper. Right now I have it fixed so they are not escaping.