Free Range Crickets...

[Crystal6]

My wife successfully released close to one thousand nearly adult crickets in my critter room today...

Thankfully, I planned for just such an event in building it, so they cannot escape the room. I double doored the entry way (air lock style!) and have a . and sealed every single nook and cranny with caulk when I built it. all HVAC ducts have critter proof 100 micron mesh covers.

Now the issue of what to do with all these loose crickets I do not feel safe feeding to my pets.

My solution?

Free Range House geckos!

I had the wife go pick a few up. They are now enjoying the critter room immensely. One is currently exploring his way across the monitor as I write.

I'd be tempted to just hunt down and recapture all 1,000 of em.

But your idea seems... less painful.

[SludgeMunkey]

Aye, it has been a few months now. The geckos were extremely successful in their endeavors. Now that the crickets are gone and I have cooled my critter room down (to promote breeding in a few months), they have all started to hang out in my cricket holding bin as it has a radiant heater in it. I have managed to capture all but one and place them in an enclosure until the next time I have a bug problem.