Culturing Crickets - Care and Breeding of the Common House Cricket

[Jace]

I read online that fish flake food can also be used to help gut-load crickets. I was thinking of adding some to your recipe as I have fish food left over from feeding tadpoles....anyone else tried this? Great care article, too. Almost makes me want to try breeding my own....almost!

[Tom Highum]

What kind of cat food? dry or wet?

[Paul Rust]

What kind of cat food? dry or wet?

Dry food Tom, thanks for the question, I'll clarify in the article.

DONE!!!

[kevinpilon1]

Great article! Where do you acquire so much egg carton? Also I am confused about the food recipe. 1/2 a blender of the catfood, and i understand the 10:1 ratio of powdered milk to vitamin, but you just said parts per volume and I don't know what that means in terms of catfood:milk/vitamin ratio. Can you shed some light on this?

[Paul Rust]

Great article! Where do you acquire so much egg carton? Also I am confused about the food recipe. 1/2 a blender of the catfood, and i understand the 10:1 ratio of powdered milk to vitamin, but you just said parts per volume and I don't know what that means in terms of catfood:milk/vitamin ratio. Can you shed some light on this?

Thank you.
I buy eggs in bulk and save the cartons.
Josh's Frogs has them very cheap.
http://www.joshsfrogs.com/category/115/Egg-Flats
It can be used for a long time if you keep it clean.
By total volume of cat food. However much cat food you decide to mix up, add 10% powdered milk and 1% vitamin.
It works out to about 1 Tablespoon of vitamin.
You don't have to be exact, you can pretty much eyeball it. These measurements are just an idea of how much I use.

[kevinpilon1]

Thanks Paul that clears it up.

[Paul Rust]

I read online that fish flake food can also be used to help gut-load crickets. I was thinking of adding some to your recipe as I have fish food left over from feeding tadpoles....anyone else tried this? Great care article, too. Almost makes me want to try breeding my own....almost!

I was following your fish flake technique Jo, I'm puzzled as to the purpose of dumping them all over the floor. Is that a method to sort them?

[Jace]

They eat the red ones last!!! lol

[Tom Highum]

I wonder, are the adversely avoiding it because of the color or because that color is composed of something different?