Cricket Catching

[LilyPad]

What are your tricks people??? I hate the nightly cricket catching, I HATE it. I don't mind touching the crickets, I hate having to rummage through their keeper, dumping over their food and messing things up, just to catch a few crickets. It wasn't bad when I had one frog, but with four, the nightly cricket catching routine is getting old. Especially when they have to go from cricket keeper, to vitamins, to critter keeper and awaiting frog. The keeper I have is just a large critter keeper for the crickets, I wasn't wasting my money on the Lee's cricket keeper when the reviews were so bad.

[Baelari]

Hmm, I have the Lee's thing. It's ok. The crickets do love the tubes, but it's hard to tell if one dies in it, and putting the vitamin powder in the tube is a big mess.

Don't the petco people just use a scoop and a funnel to put them in a bag?

[UncleChester]

I have pieces of cardboard egg cartons (some cut down so they would only hold one chicken egg) in my cricket bins for them to climb on and hide under. I just pull out a small piece and shake it over a small tupperware bin to dump the crickets off for transport to the frog vivs.

[Fae]

I use toilet paper rolls. But I have my crickets in a large clear storage bin, because I raise 'em by the 1000's. But they seem to like toilet paper rolls or cardboard egg flats. Then all you have to do is cover the ends of the toilet paper rolls with your hands and trap the crickets inside and shake 'em out into your enclosure, or put them in a separate container and then take them to your enclosure.

[LilyPad]

Thanks, I will try the toilet paper tubes, that seems easier than chasing them around the keeper.