Cricket digestion

[Crystal6]

Ebony, you bought 50 crickets for $35? OMG! That's criminal.

O_O Aren't they usually a couple of cents per insect?

[scribbles]

I buy 20x that for less, Ebony!

[Ebony]

Ebony, you bought 50 crickets for $35? OMG! That's criminal.

Yes, Im afraid so. You can also get 25 large crickets (Im assuming that's adults) for $25.00 incl postage (which is $5.00 by the way).
Keeping Amphibians is not so common here so I guess that's why. You can see why i breed most of my foods. I also catch my own flies. Ive seen Adult Locusts for $1 each.

[Kurt]

O_O Aren't they usually a couple of cents per insect?

Yes, in most places. I normally pay $20 for 1,000. At the Manchester show I paid $10 per 1,000.

[Paul Rust]

Yes, Im afraid so. You can also get 25 large crickets (Im assuming that's adults) for $25.00 incl postage (which is $5.00 by the way).
Keeping Amphibians is not so common here so I guess that's why. You can see why i breed most of my foods. I also catch my own flies. Ive seen Adult Locusts for $1 each.

That's insane.

[hyla]

Ebony, yes, I have literally watched a cricket bite my frogs leg. She jerked away immediately and thats only one reason why I remove them if she hasnt eaten them within a half hour or so. A second reason I remove them is because if I have a dish of waxworms in there for the frog, the crickets will chew them up as well. And finally the third reason I take them out is because they S**T everywhere!!! Maybe the joke is on me, and our pet store only carries evil mutant crickets, but this has been my experience.

[Kurt]

I have seen them chew up waxworms quite frequently.

Speaking of which, I produced my first waxworm! I had set up some cultures back in October of last year. I got two or three months per culture and nothing became of it. So in February I tried it again threw in more waxworms in to cultures that I believed to be dead. I got a few more moths this time, but eventually they died off too.
So here we are in April, I go to the Manchester Show and bought some waxworms that had not been refrigerated, hoping that these would actually lead some where. So two nights ago I finally got around to setting up completely new cultures.
I went to clear the shelf of the old ones so there would be room for the new ones. I started breaking down the old ones and thought I saw something move. So I took a little bit of the medium into the palm of my hand and a waxworm crawled out. It was an 1/8 of an inch long and I fed it to one of my Melanophryniscus stelzneri. Whoo hoo! Success!
Now the question is did come from the October moths or the February moths. I am think it had to be the latter.

[Crystal6]

I have seen them chew up waxworms quite frequently.

Speaking of which, I produced my first waxworm! I had set up some cultures back in October of last year. I got two or three months per culture and nothing became of it. So in February I tried it again threw in more waxworms in to cultures that I believed to be dead. I got a few more moths this time, but eventually they died off too.
So here we are in April, I go to the Manchester Show and bought some waxworms that had not been refrigerated, hoping that these would actually lead some where. So two nights ago I finally got around to setting up completely new cultures.
I went to clear the shelf of the old ones so there would be room for the new ones. I started breaking down the old ones and thought I saw something move. So I took a little bit of the medium into the palm of my hand and a waxworm crawled out. It was an 1/8 of an inch long and I fed it to one of my Melanophryniscus stelzneri. Whoo hoo! Success!
Now the question is did come from the October moths or the February moths. I am think it had to be the latter.

The first time I ever bred crickets the entire cricket population died off before any of the eggs hatched. It was weird because I was putting food into an empty cage for a week before I saw anything that was able to eat the food.

Anyways congratulations.

[Kurt]

Thanks. Went looking last night and found another. They are quite different then the ones you buy at the pet store in one way. They move faster and are more energetic. Maybe I can even get red-eyes to eat them.