Tips for moving pinheads from shipping box into cricket keeper?

[flybyferns]

Yes it's a pain to transfer them
It's even a bigger pain to clean the bin next week ! ( keep more than one bin on hand)
Like Carlos has mentioned, simply remove the lid to the cricket shipping container , while it's in the freshly prepared cricket bin bin and discard the yuckie parts they were shipped with.

It will not look like 500 crickets.

A 30-35 Qt rubber maid storage bin, or 2, makes a good size cricket bin. Melt lots of ventilation holes in the lids.

To clean the bin, rolled up clean paper towel works great. Let them climb in and then carefully transfer them from the dirty bin to the clean bin. This takes some time to accomplish.


http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...et-helper.html ( if you should need it)

[Gentlemangorath]

I've actually got a large cricket keeper already, the ones with the black tubes in it for the crickets to hide in (the large one with 4 tubes), so I don't need to make a keeper, but thank you for the recommendations. I hate to ask, but could you elaborate on the egg carton trick? Am I placing the open shipping box in a larger tub/box with open egg cartons inside, then closing the cartons, and shaking those into the keeper? I was kind of thinking of cutting a box in the side of the rectangular box and then sort of just shaking them into the keeper, but I figured I'd try to see what other people do. Thank you both for the tips though .

[flybyferns]

Hi Abraham,
Sorry , I didn't realize you were transferring them into a cricket keeper.
I believe a lg cricket keeper is too small for 500 pin head crickets.
You may find keeping them in a lager bin will be easier to care for them.
Just a thought

One of the links in the 'Cricket Helper' above has photos members posted of their bins.
Hope this helps more.
Lynn