Keeping crickets

[Sean C]

Now that I have looked around on this site a bit more, there is also this....

http://www.frogforum.net/care-articl...e-cricket.html

[crevalle]

Keeping roaches (dubia) is much easier. Crickets die-off, drown, and stink.

[Baelari]

I agree, dubias are the best, but it takes a while to get a colony going. Plus, I kind of enjoy watching them skitter around sometimes, though I usually only see the boys out and about. Crickets smell terrible, make too much noise, and die so quickly.

Until I get my colony established, I make weekly cricket runs too. I keep my crickets in one of those plastic Kritter Keepers, and feed them Orange Cube, fish flakes, and a piece of whatever veggie I have lying around. It seems like if I put water in there for them, they all die.

[Frog Mom]

One piece of advice that I appreciated was to put tape over the holes in the cricket keeper near the hinges for the lid flaps and the handles. I have to buy small crickets and I'm sure I'd have escapees if I hadn't done that before I actually put crickets in there.

[heyjude2200]

I was constantly making runs to the pet store for crickets & was a little frustrated at the inconsistency of size--sometimes they would be too big for my red bellies. Now I've started buying them online in large quantities and keeping them in critter keepers--it works great. I put the tubes in instead of egg crates & they hide in the tubes, so I just take a tube out & knock some into a container w/a little calcium in it & dinner is ready! It ends up being a lot less expensive--if the weather is moderate you can ship them 2nd day & the shipping is much more reasonable.