Drowning crickets...

[Whistly]

Hi a cricket bowl is a small shallow dish/bowl that has vertical sides and really smooth sides so they can't grip onto the sides to pull themselves out. Make sure it is taller then the length of the crickets or they might be able to get out.

[bshmerlie]

I just use a smooth glass dipping sauce bowl or you can use one of your wife's expensive crystal candy dishes. It can be a couple of inches deep. Just push it down into the soil so it is flush. The glass is too smooth and the crickets just slide back down. The frogs will eventually wait for you at the bowl to put in crickets. You'll go through less crickets this way and you can be certain your frog is eating. Start off putting it close to your frogs soaking dish so he'll see it. Once he's used to it you can put it anywhere.

[FrogFever]

Thanks!
I just figured the crickets could easily jump straight up and out though....

[bshmerlie]

Believe it or not they just don't.

[Striped marsh]

lol i have the same problem in my Australian Green tree frog tank, i had to put australian because for some reason it changes it puts american in front of it? anyway i have a log that is sitting in the water and i once found a cricket with it's head in the water but the rest of it's body out. what i now do is hand feed them to my frogs although i get bitten alot

[DogRetepCow]

It seems to me that crickets drown very easily. Whenever this happens with me, the cricket is dead practically the second it touches the water, or so it seems.

[LilyPad]

It seems to me that crickets drown very easily. Whenever this happens with me, the cricket is dead practically the second it touches the water, or so it seems.

LOL Isn't that weird??? That's how it seems in my tanks too. Paddy is too hungry to care though...eventually she'll fish them out and eat them.