Quote Originally Posted by adawinters View Post
I have to admit that I'm curious: with the amount you guys need, why don't you breed crickets yourselves? (Although, I guess the answer's in the question, since I imagine it would be a pain to breed that many for a regular monthly supply.)
I hate farming crickets. It is noisy. It stinks. It is expensive to do and requires time, effort and space I would rather use for my critters and my vivaria projects.

Second only to the smell, the worst part of cricket farming in my opinion, is sorting them out by size when you need pin heads and 1/8th inch in vast quantities.

At my current "inventory" of pets, I go through about 4500 tiny crickets, well over 5000 fruit flies, and easily 1500 medium to adult size crickets a month. This is in addition to supplementing my wild caught stock with wild caught foods as suggested by Mr. Indiviglio.

Currently, I am in an "overfeeding" phase with many of my juveniles, in order to increase their size. I will not be able to mail order live foods for a good portion of the winter and live food purchase options are limited and overpriced here. I am farming stink and noise free lobster roaches, however my cultures are young. Once they become better developed, they will be able to provide larger amounts of feeders of numerous sizes to get me through the winter.

Ghann's has been a godsend for quite a while for me, saving me well over 100 dollars a month in critter food bills.