Setting up to raise some crickets.

[SweetApples]

I decided, if I want to try and raise a batch of tadpoles, I'd better look into raising some insects first. Crickets seemed like a popular choice. I got an extra aquarium stand that was at my parents house, cleaned up two empty ten gal. aquariums and put screen lids on them that I also found among my stuff from my mouse keeping days. This is a great use of my aquariums that came from my parents house that they carelessly cracked while in storage.

I go online to research raising crickets in tanks and find it a bit more complicated then I'm prepared for. So the project is stalling a bit for me for me to figure out how to get these tanks properly ready for crickets.
I guess the preferred method to let the crickets lay eggs in one tank and move the eggs into another tank to hatch into baby crickets. No problem, I have plenty of empty tanks laying around.
Now, if this succeeds, I hope for now my fish like crickets because the plans are probably to wait until the end of the hiking season to setup for pet frogs.

[Bombina Bob]

I was in the same situation at first too. its much easier than it sounds, if you buy 10 or 20 adult crickets and use a small cup of co earth, overnight the crickets will lay their eggs and can be easily incubated. i use a heat mat under a small plastic storage container with water up to one inch and the cricket cup in the water with a lid covering it. check twice to every day on the eggs and eventually you will get TINY pinheads within a week or two. With baby frogs, they eat a LOT of pinheads, ive seen the Northwestern red legged frogs Rana aroura eat up to 10 or more pinheads every day.

If you cannot get baby crickets so easily, a friutfly culture may be better, These guys dont have wings so you wont have to worry about them escaping! a culture of friutflies will start breeding within a couple weeks to a month and are usually 20 dollars where i come from.

[UncleChester]

There's a cricket breeding article on Frog Forum: Frog Forum - Culturing Crickets - Care and Breeding of the Common House Cricket

What kind of tadpoles are you planning to raise? Some froglets start out very small, and it might be a good idea to try fruitflies as well as Ryan has suggested. Depending on the froglet size and the number you raise, it may be difficult to time the pinhead cricket production to meet the frogs needs: Frog Forum - Fruit Fly Culturing, Care and Feeding - Everything you need to know about Drosophila

Milkweed bugs looks like a somewhat novel small feeder that I'm going to try this summer when I get around to gathering a few adults: Frog Forum - An alternative to crickets and fruitflies - Milkweed bugs