Crickets escaping!

[Nabced]

My crickets are escaping from the container I keep them in ): does anyone have any recommendations on how to contain them or what do you use? Thanks!

[DonLisk]

I use a Tupperware container for mine. I have a larger one and cut out a section of the top and added a screen to provide air circulation or it will stink bad.
I also add in crushed corn kernels from the pet store to reduce smell.

I buy my crickets in either the 500 or 1000 count box to save money and just put a piece of potato in along with a cap filled with gutload.

The cricket keepers will lose crickets from where the handle meets the top of the keeper. At least that was where mine escaped from.

[Nabced]

Alright I'll try to rig something like that

[Frog Mom]

I put tape over the places on my cricket keeper where the handle attaches and also where the little hinge is for the flap that covers the opening where the black tubes go in. So far I haven't had any escapees, but I do keep needing to check and make sure that the tape is still attached in all the right places.

[bshmerlie]

If you have to deal with larger quantities of crickets use a deeper trash can type bin. That way you can reach in with your bowl and shack the crickets into it at the bottom. A lot of cricket escapes happen during the transfer process. Another thing I do to prevent escapees is I have my cricket container sitting in bathtub. Of course its a spare bathroom that we don't use. If the crickets ever do escape from their container they are trapped in the bath tub instead of roaming my house.

[LilyPad]

I have a taped up critter keeper too. My frogs can't handle adult crickets yet and I'm not interested in breeding them (yet) so for now I have to buy them once a week in smaller amounts so they don't grow too much (and hide somewhere in my tank and chirp!)

[DonLisk]

If you have to deal with larger quantities of crickets use a deeper trash can type bin. That way you can reach in with your bowl and shack the crickets into it at the bottom. A lot of cricket escapes happen during the transfer process. Another thing I do to prevent escapees is I have my cricket container sitting in bathtub. Of course its a spare bathroom that we don't use. If the crickets ever do escape from their container they are trapped in the bath tub instead of roaming my house.

This is my wife's favorite, find the crickets trapped in the bathtub. We don't save them though since you never know what they were eating or walking on such as soap and lotions.

[LilyPad]

This is my wife's favorite, find the crickets trapped in the bathtub. We don't save them though since you never know what they were eating or walking on such as soap and lotions.

I did not even think about that Usually if I find an escapee, I just throw it in the tank! That includes the occasional one I find in the tub! I will toss them outside from now on!

[Nabced]

Thanks for the suggestions guys (:

[Heatheranne]

I taped my cricket keeper holes there too. There are a few escapies once in awhile, but not too often.

I use wood chips like the ones you buy for small critter bedding in the bottom of the cricket keeper. The soft shaved ones. It keeps the bottom of the keeper warm and decreases the stink. Easy to clean that way too.

[Frog Mom]

Heatheranne--that's a great idea. I think I'll try that. I'm always a little disgusted at how stinky the cricket keeper gets by the end of the week. Pee-yew!

[Heatheranne]

Haha! Me too!

[CRZ]

What do you do with the crickets that do escape and roam your house? Will they just die or mulitiply? I have a few that are 3 week olds that got out and I cannot find them. Should I be worried?

[GrifTheGreat]

We just put the escapees outside. You never know what they ate while they were loose. I don't want to accidentally feed something bad to my frogs. Unless you are having mass crickets escapes, I wouldn't worry too much about cricket multiplying.

[Sublime]

What do you do with the crickets that do escape and roam your house? Will they just die or mulitiply? I have a few that are 3 week olds that got out and I cannot find them. Should I be worried?

They will die within a week without having an accessible water source and food source. Don't worry about a few escapes; if you had a mass colony escape with a haven for crickets in your house, then there would be a problem. There's always a few adults that hop out in the transfer process when feeding my frog, they roam my room and die in a few days.

I stand by everyone who talks about not feeding the escape crickets; not only do they lose their minuscule nutritional value, they could also contain other harmful chemicals while being exposed to the rest of the house. When I saw Don post that, it made absolute sense... Not worth it.

[BG]

Those damn escapees cost me 4 days in the dog house.lol Never heard the end of it. From now on me and the crickets meet out in the back shed for now.. They R noisy buggers and anoyeing. They sound like a squiky weel. Lol. The holes in the handdles i fill them in with the glue gun.

[kueluck]

I use a Sterilite container,love the click sound that tells me it's closed, about 9 in tall. Cut out circle on top, duct tape screen. When ready to take crickets out I just tape the egg crate or paper tubes into the plastic container. I put up to 500 pinheads in one.

[CRZ]

Thanks for the replies! I was all worried my house would be taken over by crickets, and I'd have to hire a exterminator to get rid of them.

[ConVexity]

I eat the crickets around my house!
PROTEIN!

[CRZ]

Just found my last cricket, 4 days after he escaped. Well I hope it was a he. I think he was gut loaded very good. I thought after 2-3 days it would have died. This guy was strong and very much alive.