How to collect and sort crickets from breeding tank

[Rebel]

I have a question: I have become fairly successful at breeding crickets, and use all different sizes because I have various lizards and frogs. My difficulty is in actually collecting the smaller ones from the breeding cage. I heat the tank to promote breeding, which makes the crickets extremely fast, and trying to separate the smaller ones from the much larger ones each day is a tedious task. Any ideas?

[The Fluffy Injun]

Make a hide that only the little ones can get through? That would be my guess.

[Rebel]

Good idea. any idea what i can use as an attractant?

[The Fluffy Injun]

A deli container or something like that with softer plastic.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Use inexpensive plastic bowls to make a sifter and drill small holes in one and medium in another.

only drill the bottom area, a pattern of holes about 5 inches in dimeter.

[Rebel]

Thanks. I will try it. Would you put any kind of food inside, or would the crickets naturally go in there to hide?

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I just scooped them up in a funnel and poured them into the first bowl with small holes.
that separated the pinheads and smaller.
then I poured what was left into the bowl with medium sized holes and that let the mediums fall out.
and what was left were the adults.

[demon amphibians]

I just scooped them up in a funnel and poured them into the first bowl with small holes.
that separated the pinheads and smaller.
then I poured what was left into the bowl with medium sized holes and that let the mediums fall out.
and what was left were the adults.

I do this with my dubia as well. super fast and easy method. A bucket with holes in the bottom may be a little better because its harder for them to jump out.